Here’s something to consider for you sad folks who don’t see magic anymore:
Compare our world to Harry Potter. With the unfortunate exceptions of teleportation and soul-splitting, we can do everything that the wizards can do, and more. We have magic little tablets that allow us to communicate with each other anywhere, by speaking or by reading and writing. We have electricity, a magical force that can encode our entire culture. We have the Internet and television.
We also have spaceships. And we have cameras that can show us the way clouds flow over mountains, or the tiniest details of an ant colony, and the knowledge to explain how both things work. We can view distant planets circling distant stars, and one day we might even go to one of these places.
And most of us, even poor people, live lives of comfort that would have been inconceivable to human beings living even just 50 years ago. We can also visit virtual worlds entirely of our own creation that increase in detail and majesty every year.
As Joe Stalin once said, “there is no difference between magic and sufficiently advanced technology.”