Unsupported Speculation

Arthur C. Clarke famously said:

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”

I would say that this is perhaps only an intermediary stage, and that what happens upon the accomplishment of the MOST advanced state of technology is that it becomes mundane to the point of almost being unnoticeable.

In fact, it may even become invisible, and its virtues are only recognized by those that understand how to use it. Everyone else however will only see something that seems foreign and maybe inferior, because their different culture and different eyes disallow them being able to even see how much experience went in to the design of something that to them looks primitive.

This is because sometimes at the end of the road of a technology’s advancement is NOT complexity, but utter simplicity. This is because additional complexity is often added in order to compensate for a technology’s shortcomings. However, after many generations of a thing’s design, the more was progressively removed from it until it accomplishes it’s simplest state, where the little that remains present in it is completely harmonious with the thing’s intended use.

But to everyone else, it all just looks like flea market brik-a-brak.