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Re:Burn the Programmer by NikolaeVarius on Friday November 10, 2017 @11:33AM (#15670991)
The books Daemon/Freedom by Daniel Suarez was pretty entertaining on that front. The idea that people could literally affect the world around them via "magic spells" which mapped aliases of a invented language that would be picked up by microphones and then executed on computers.

There is a section that muses about the future of humanity and how in the near future, these would literally seem like magic to anyone who doens't have technical know how, and for all intents and purposes, it was.

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Re:Burn the Programmer by proaralyst on Friday November 10, 2017 @12:46PM (#15671547)
In the Quantum Thief (actually one of its sequels) by Hannu Rajaniemi, there are Secret Names that perform magic; one of them was 'Emergency Decompression Protection' and produced a shield around the incanter.
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Re:Burn the Programmer by andrewflnr on Friday November 10, 2017 @04:11PM (#15673078)
Smartcoral's user interface is also pretty similar, though, and that shows up in Quantum Thief proper. :)
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Re:Burn the Programmer by shostack on Friday November 10, 2017 @12:42PM (#15671512)
With always listening assistants, we're practically there with Google and Alexa. We just need cooler things to interact with than communication and divination (checking the weather) "spells."

As soon as we get some sort of grey goo with an API like in Big Hero 6 or wrist mounted fireball/lightning generators we're in business.

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Re:Burn the Programmer by civilian on Friday November 10, 2017 @02:25PM (#15672244)
"hocus pocus fe fi fo fum, play Taylor Swift's latest album"
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