{"id":3526,"date":"2015-01-25T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-25T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8105\/?p=3526"},"modified":"2021-12-04T19:46:42","modified_gmt":"2021-12-04T19:46:42","slug":"any-sufficiently-advanced-technology-is-indistinguishable-from-magic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.shahada.abubakar.net\/?p=3526","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">I thought the first computer game I played, some 30 years ago, \u00a0was pretty good (take a look here <a class=\"ot-anchor bidi_isolate\" dir=\"ltr\" href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/d2Ru1M\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">http:\/\/goo.gl\/d2Ru1M<\/a>).\u00a0It worked with\u00a016 colours on a 256&#215;192 pixel screen, with no hardware support for sprites or drawing of any kind.If you understood the architecture of the machine you could almost &#8220;imagine&#8221; the CPU writing and shifting the bytes around the video mapped memory, and that was pretty much all there was to it. But playing it still felt almost like magic.<\/p>\n<p>Arthur C Clarke said that &#8220;any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic&#8221;. And I can&#8217;t even begin to imagine the stuff that goes into the games today and how it all works \u00a0&#8230;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>LINK:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.eu.playstation.com\/2014\/06\/05\/51-driveclub-details-might-just-blow-mind\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.shahada.abubakar.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/1-1.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n51 DRIVECLUB details that might just blow your mind<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>This post was originally <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+shahadaabubakar\/posts\/Z9bAcQWbfB8\">published<\/a> publicly on <a href=\"http:\/\/plus.google.com\">Google+<\/a> at 2015-01-26 03:24:10+0800<\/i><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought the first computer game I played, some 30 years ago, \u00a0was pretty good (take a look here http:\/\/goo.gl\/d2Ru1M).\u00a0It worked with\u00a016 colours on a 256&#215;192 pixel screen, with no hardware support for sprites&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4063,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[120],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.shahada.abubakar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.shahada.abubakar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.shahada.abubakar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shahada.abubakar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shahada.abubakar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3526"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shahada.abubakar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6441,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shahada.abubakar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3526\/revisions\/6441"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shahada.abubakar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.shahada.abubakar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shahada.abubakar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shahada.abubakar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}