Could you consider the fact that Clarke didn't have the dictionary definition of magic in mind when he said that? Yes, magic has a supernatural cause, but separate from this definition is a general conception of what magic manifests as. "Magical" events can be generally agreed on in society. If a man appeared out of…

But the point of the quote isn't that we would mistake some advanced technology as magic, but that this technology would be "indistinguishable" from it. Magic is generally understood to be a affecting things in a way that we at present could not do with technology. When you think of magic, you think of people…