A counterpoint is Buckminster Fuller's ephemeralization: over time we learn how to do more and more with less and less, until eventually, we can do everything with nothing.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ephemeralization

> nothing

Doesn't that violate cause and effect? i.e. if we can have a "result" without any "effort" then there was no cause for that result i.e. violating cause and effect.

I assumed he was observing that as technology improves, human effort asymptotically approaches zero. If it reached zero, I would be worried!

Any sufficiently ultra-advanced technology is indistinguishable from miracles.

> miracles

Hmm. Magic and miracles are not the same. One is breaking some of the core laws of physics that hold true regardless of your "capabilities".

I also don't really like that justification because it can essentially justify any sort of belief.

"There's no such thing as miracles, or the supernatural, only cutting-edge technology!"