Sanderson's law is what I feel. Thanks for pointing it out. I really enjoyed Karl Schroeders Ventus where the population saw technology as magic: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ventus Nuttails Suffiently Advanced Technology is also a good example: http://www.amazon.com/Sufficiently-Advanced-Technology-Inver... (http://www.amazon.com/Sufficiently-Advanced-Technology-Inverse-Shadows-ebook/dp/B00DVZM1WQ)
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