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Everyday wizardry

Swiping at a boom gate feels like casting a spell. Technology is everyday wizardry, if we choose to notice the magic instead of the mechanism.

I swipe my finger at the boom gate and it lifts. Just a camera scanning plates, but it feels like wizardry.

The wave of a finger is enough to turn ordinary into magic.

Sometimes it stalls. Maybe I fumbled the spell.

What else could we choose to see that way?

The phone in your pocket, the water flowing at a tap, the voice message that travels across oceans in seconds.

Everyday wizardry is everywhere. It’s only invisible because we stop looking.

Everyday wizardry { Reflections | Liam Barr }