Why Technology is Actually Magic

Science and technology is our excuse to

do magic. We make computers think by

zapping crystals with a magical force we

can't see called electricity. You're

using your phone or computer as some

kind of portal to look at this moment

from the past. And I'm using mine to

send you a message into the future. The

screens are made of either liquid

crystal or some kind of organic film

also being zapped by electricity. We

make most of that electricity by burning

some magic rocks that we found in the

ground. And sometimes we use even more

powerful radioactive magic rocks that

can power whole cities full of magic

items that are activated by your touch

and light up when you use them. In this

video, I'll talk about how all these

different things that we use every day,

like phones, the internet, cars, and

even fire are just human magic, but

we're so used to them that we forgot.

Probably the weirdest example of

technology being magic is microchips.

And we put them in everything. They make

them by growing some crystals out of

melted sand. And then they cut those

crystals into thin slices. And then they

burn some really small patterns into

them by shooting some light through a

lens. We basically have a bunch of

wizards growing crystals and then

carving them into tiny runes using

light. And then when it's done, we make

them think by pushing some electricity

through them, which is just some wave

particle magic energy source. But I'll

talk about that later in the video. So

then after we make these little magic

runes and put them in everything, what

do we do next? We enchant the object.

They basically just write a bunch of

symbols and words in a different

language and it brings life to inanimate

objects. They're just using some

incantations to enchant stuff. People

who write code and program things are

just some wizards who specialize in

enchantment magic. Your phone or

computer is an enchanted magical device

that's activated by your touch and

voice. And it can open up a portal to a

different dimension called the internet.

In the internet is just an enchanted

mostly two-dimensional realm that we

used to store and share information,

talk to each other, and trade things.

And it's all maintained by a bunch of

wizards constantly casting spells by

hitting enter. We also hide our money

inside banks in this realm that have

powerful magic seals to keep it safe

from rogue wizards trying to cast spells

to steal it. And we access it with our

debit card, an enchanted piece of

plastic, metal, and magic crystal. And

then there's Bitcoin, a really powerful

magic coin that's impossible to steal

because the seals protecting it are so

strong. The people making robots are

basically making golems, some things

made of earth that are brought to life

with writing or incantations. We're

getting so good at enchantment magic

that we're just enchanting things that

don't even need to be enchanted. You can

get an enchanted watch or a ring. Our

cards are full of enchantments. Your

house probably has an enchanted eye

watching the front door for you, ready

to alert you if somebody's there. You

can even buy enchanted glasses that

record everything you see and play sound

directly into your brain. And somehow

all these complex things are running off

some zeros and ones. It's basically the

lore to our magic systems. But that's

all just our most recent highle magic.

What about the first and the oldest type

of magic humans ever used? Fire. Isn't

it weird that without us using fire for

everything? It would be rare to see

before humans started using it, the only

time it would exist on Earth would be

from like a lightning strike or a

volcano starting a forest fire. Imagine

being another animal and seeing these

other weird creatures with this bright

glowing hot light. It must seem so

unnatural to them. We're just chilling

next to this stuff that could destroy

their whole world. And other animals

have to keep warm by trapping in the

heat they generate with thick fur skin.

We make an external heat source to get

warm. And they also think the use of

fire to cook made our digestive system

change. And the extra nutrients from

food being cooked made our brains get

bigger. It's almost like fire became

part of our digestive system. And now we

use fire everywhere. It's such a common

form of magic that you don't even think

about it. It used to be really hard to

make a fire, too. You either had to rub

sticks together or make some sparks with

rocks. Now, you can make fire with the

push of a button. But fire is just our

first form of magic energy. And we've

been slowly replacing it with a more

efficient form called electricity. And

this is where things started to get

weird. Electricity lets us level up our

magic so much from just using fire.

We've now got this form of invisible

magic energy that travels through metal

ropes and connects everything together.

It's lighting up our whole world and

powering all our magic devices. But what

even is this stuff? Electricity is just

the flow of electrons from atom to atom.

And electrons are these things that

orbit or spin around the atoms. They

orbit the atoms because of a force like

gravity called electromagnetism. They

also make the atoms magnetically stick

together to make up molecules which

makes up everything in reality. So these

electrons are really just holding

everything together. And electricity is

just pushing those electrons from atom

to atom and something like a wire or the

circuits in electronics. And the

electrons are really weird. They're

physical and non-physical. They spread

out and act like a wave of energy until

we try to look and see where they are.

And then they collapse into a single

point of matter. They're somehow a wave

of energy and a piece of matter

depending on what they're doing. The

more that you look into what these

things are, the more it sounds like

they're just trying to make up a logical

conclusion to how the magic works. And

the reason electricity is just an

evolved version of fire magic is because

the energy or heat that comes from fire

is just the energy being released from

the electron bonds breaking that hold

everything together. It's all just a

really complex lore system for our

magical energy. And it all works by

manipulating the things that hold

everything together. So, electricity is

weird, but it gets even weirder when you

find out that almost all of our

electronic devices are using some form

of crystal magic. If you zap a quartz

crystal with electricity, it'll

physically vibrate at high speeds. And

if you do the opposite and apply a

physical force to it, it'll produce some

electricity. It's just a crystal with

some magical properties that can convert

energy from one type to another. We use

the vibrating part in electronics to

keep track of time. Basically, the

heartbeat. They also use it to make the

radio waves vibrate for Wi-Fi and

Bluetooth, but I'll talk about that in a

minute because that's a magic all on its

own. And it even controls the vibrations

of ultrasounds. And then they use it the

other way to convert movement into

electrical signals to measure things

like force, acceleration, pressure

change. Your phone even uses the effect

to feel gravity, which is similar to how

we feel gravity with crystals in our

heads. We're just putting a little

magical crystal that converts physical

force into electrical energy in almost

everything. And these crystals actually

let us unlock another level of magic

beyond electricity to make things like

Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. They put a crystal

in each device and then they zap them

with electricity to make them talk to