  urlLink Any technology indistinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced "Think for a moment on how our culture characterizes "magic".
Generally, it is envisioned as "occult" -- the obscure and arcane. It requires intensive specialized training, and even then, it is so dangerous and sensitive to tiny errors -- get one word wrong in a spell, and... -- that ordinary people can't possibly use it. It is capricious and erratic. And when magic is preformed by an adept on behalf of the uninitiated, often there is a terrible, punitive cost.
The "magic" we imagine is rare and strange and uncanny and scary and very, very marginal to every day life. Is that our dream for our technology, then? To make occult, arcane systems that give power to wizards in their isolated holdfasts and to sorcerors with their dusty tomes, but have no impact on the poor peasants who give their towers a wide berth, save perhaps to make them superstitious petitioners unto a power they loathe?
I think it is manefestly obvious that is not what technologists dream. " [via urlLink Chapel.Perilous ] Based on Arthur C. Clark's saying, "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic," this article sets up the dichotomy of the general characterization of magick as inaccessible and perilous in contrast to the idea of ubiquitous and connective technologies that should appear as "just part of life.
" However this is only an apparent dichotomy, and perhaps the difference between the two is being taken out of proportion to aggrandize one at the expense of the other. In Aleister Crowley's urlLink Magick: Liber ABA , urlLink Part III: Magick in Theory and Practice , he urlLink defines magick as: "the Science and Art of causing Change to occur in conformity with Will," with the further postulate that "ANY required change may be effected by the application of the proper kind and degree of Force in the proper manner, through the proper medium to the proper object. " I interpret this, along with A.C. Clark's saying, to mean that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magick not because it becomes obscure in how it functions, but because it becomes a part of every-day life as every intentional action in life is an act of magick (especially including science and technology).
The most basic pieces of technology, like a hammer, or language, are the most magickal because they have ceased to stand apart from our existence as biological entities, but become a transparent interface between our intentional will and the medium of our environment. 
