[ExI] Inevitability of the Singularity (was Re: To Max, re Natasha and Extropy (Kevin Haskell)

[Damien Broderick]

On 7/6/2011 1:44 PM, BillK wrote:
> origin
>
>      * This term is quite old, going back at least to the mid-70s in
> jargon and probably much earlier. The word "automagic" occurred in
> advertising (for a shirt-ironing gadget) as far back as the late
> 1940s.

And now I think about it, I recall with a shudder that Elron Hubbard 
used it for an execrable short story in ASTOUNDING:

The Automagic Horse (1949)

Damien Broderick