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If the transhumanists are right, and they probably are, science will eventually become magic to us because only giant supercomputers will be able to research or understand the complexities of future science. And that includes weird-ass technology like nanobot swarms which would probably let you fly through the air on a magic carpet shooting fireballs or whatever. It's called "smart matter" and varieties like "utility fog".
However, it's considerably more shitty than magic since smart matter could linger in the air and whoever owns the air (the government or a corporation via financialization) could tax the air you breath as metered by the smart matter. While Tolkien never mentioned Aragorn's tax policy, I don't think it included asking Gandalf to help tax the air people breathed.
However, it's considerably more shitty than magic since smart matter could linger in the air and whoever owns the air (the government or a corporation via financialization) could tax the air you breath as metered by the smart matter. While Tolkien never mentioned Aragorn's tax policy, I don't think it included asking Gandalf to help tax the air people breathed.