[quote]"...previous course covered magical history at large. But there are just as many impotents that have had an influence on how we think about and use magic... and if you've been paying attention you can already guess some of the historic events I'll be covering in detail today. Advances in photography and videography and how they've shaped the way illusionists more quickly and accurately develop their abilities, microscope technology and how it facilitates development of magics dealing in biology and diminutive telekinesis... but think about this.

Aetheric studies from a technological perspective have always been extremely limited. Mages with the ability to see and manipulate aether can't lend their affinity to others, western and eastern magical doctrines still haven't resolved why aether and chi behave the same but are manipulated in drastically different ways after hundreds of years of being aware of their near sameness, and worst of all there aren't computers capable of performing the mathematical functions that aether works with... or, there weren't. Quantum computation [b]does[/b], though. And even in its infancy, VR has already proven that with the right tools new magical affinities can be [b]taught[/b]. We may finally be reaching a breakthrough in the study of Aether of a magnitude equaling Euclidean Arcana or the Old Dynasty texts.

But by the end of this semester, you'll understand how all of this came to be.

Technomagical Synthesis is one of the only practical magical theories that has stood the test of time, and it was a theory posited separately by civilizations in ancient South America, Eurasia and Africa within less than two centuries of one another. Chronologically, ancient Central Ame..."[/quote]-Magical History And Culture 102: Technomagical Studies; Lecturer Danielle Rajaan