In Harry Potter, there is no internet in the wizzard world. While muggles may be hopelessly behind on making things levitate, general transportation, and playing Quiddich (see here for the pathetic muggle 
attempt at this), we are light years ahead in information technology. Just think of the first book/movie, where Harry and the gang want to find out who Nicholas Flamel is. In order to solve this, they must randomly pull books from the shelves of the library at random until they just happen to find the right book (there isn’t even a dewy decimal system…are you f@cking kidding me? how do they write research papers?). Their muggle counterparts would have figured it out on Wikipedia in like 14 seconds.
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Would Brainy Smurf have been considered smart if he didn’t wear glasses? I don’t remember h
im ever doing much that was very “smart” other than talking a lot and getting picked on. It’s strange that even in the smurf world there is a perceived correlation between bad eyesight and intelligence.
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If the Transformers came to earth and secretly taught humans about building machines like cars and airplanes, don’t they bare a huge share of the blame in global warming? And what went wrong with GM…
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Is there anything more disappointing to the advancement of military technology than the failure of laser guns to take off? Literally every cartoon or futuristic vision of war had people shooting unlimited ammo laser guns. Instead, we get Lasik eye surgery. Yawn.
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Which of the following will future generations find most repellent about us:
- We have a syrup called Aunt Jemima
- When we figured out Aunt Jemima was a bit racist, we removed her head scarf and figured we’d solved the problem
- We were too lazy to put both butter and syrup on our pancakes, so we actually created butter flavored syrup (which begs the question, why not just make butter and pancake flavored syrup and we can skip the pancakes altogether?)
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Will video game systems evolve to the point where the graphics are more realistic than real life so that people complain that the world has bad graphics?
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At what point will we be able to admit that Michael Jackson’s post-Thriller musical career was average, at best.
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The people who worked on the sewer system in the town where Goonies took place must have been super oblivious.
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Do animals realize just how illterate they are?
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I don’t think Doc Brown and Marty McFly ever quite got the concept of what you’re supposed to do when you have a time machine–has anyone ever been more wasteful in using this technology?
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