What’S The Closest Thing......

banker_frank | 08:17 Tue 09th Jul 2019 | ChatterBank

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to real magic?

With a new “smart” something coming out almost every day, what products amaze and astound you the most?

Me, its Sat. navs.

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Bazile

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How one of these get off stay in the air https://www.aviationcv.com/aviation-blog/2015/top-largest-passenger-aircraft

12:23 Tue 09th Jul 2019

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Tilly2

The w.w.w.

banker_frank

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I Sat. Nav-ed a 500 mile journey at the weekend and 'she' knew where I was even when I diverted to avoid an accident. That's magic.

Old_Geezer

Medical advances

spathiphyllum

I would say the human mind.

It is behind all of these new products.

banker_frank

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What products amaze and astound you. That is the question. Medical advances and the human mind are not products.

douglas9401

That new donkey that never gets lost.

The smartass

Hopkirk

The smartphone.

On Star Trek they had futuristic handheld communicators.

Now we've got them and they do so much more.

spathiphyllum

Sorry, i thought the question was "What’S The Closest Thing To Real Magic"

The mind creates these amazing products, but not only that, it also understands how they work. Amazing in my opinion.

banker_frank

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My mind doesn't understand how they work. I just use them.How does my Sat Nav know I've made an unscheduled turn off the M18 to avoid miles of tailback, then tell me how to get back on further up and miss the traffic?

derek-33

they or it appears to be magic only because you can't understand how they work. nothing is "magic"

spathiphyllum

"How does my Sat Nav know I've made an unscheduled turn off the M18 to avoid miles of tailback"

Something called a GPS. They also have "Maps" downloaded, so they know which roads to use and what they're called, and they use this info with your "GPS location".

banker_frank

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Of course I know the theory. But I am one of millions of users of GPS yet I can be personally found from outa space and this intelligence can divert me to the correct route in literally seconds. That to me is magic.