User blog comment:Elseweyr/Mass Effect bubble soon punctured?/@comment-8419211-20130725213545/@comment-1440333-20130726191919

To counter the point though - How do you think Da Vinci - perhaps the greatest mechanical and engineering mind in human history - would have viewed an iphone? Even someone as rational and inquisitive as leonardo would have no way to explain it other than magic - and thats a technological difference of 600years or so.

Now imagine the millenia of change in Mass Effect, or the technology of Asgard in the Marvel Cinematic Universe where Thor makes a similar quote. No matter how advanced your technology is at the time, no matter how intelligent or technologically minded you are, eventually technology past a certain point will be undecipherable to you.