Internet Wizardry: Possible?

[Shecky P. Waldorf]

Back in Turn Coat, Harry mentions that some of the wizard doctors go back to med school to keep up to date on the latest medical developments. It always made me wonder how they managed not to kill their patients.

You make a fine point. I think we're gonna have to ask Jim that directly.

[Landing on ducks]

I suppose they could just go back and study all the new medical information in a academic setting only, skipping any kind of internship like study in hospitals. If they do that part maybe they do it in some hospital that the Venatori control where they can practice mixing the new medical information they learned with magic. Some of the stuff the learned probably doesn't have much use at first, like how to use the latest diagnostic equipment but the medical wizard can use the ideas behind the equipment to find a way to do something similar with magic. What the wizard learns probably has as much to do with ideas for new magics he can develop as stictly learning medical procedures, at least that's one of the possibilities I can think up. 

[toturi]

Another point is that if magic does not interact well with tech, then it would be really amusing if high tech fabrics are adversely affected when worned by wizards. Nylon/kevlar/synthetic fabrics going to pieces, titanium steel giving way under stresses it was designed for...

If the magnetic strip on his card can lose its magnetism by being simple proximity(not even having "moving" electronic parts per se like an RFID/electronic chip/etc), then I do not see why those other materials would be able to survive. Afterall, magnetism is naturally occuring in lodestones. I wonder if CD/DVD collections would lose their data by simple proximity to Harry.

[PantheraOnca]

I always thought a gear-based machine to provide distance between the interface objects and the actual computer would allow for computer access. For instance, set up a typewriter so that it triggered whatever keys were pressed on it to be struck on a keyboard a few rooms down, some similar setup for a mouse and some kind of magnifying glass/telescope mirror setup to see the monitor. you could also put a circle around this station so that your magic doesn't get out of it.

[Azraelean]

I have been thinking about all of this. If a company manufactured all of the cell phones with a piece of something, and there were enough pieces of that something, Then a thaumaturgic process could be used to contact people. unfortunately. Butchers explanation of Thaumaturgy makes this idea seem more like the two tin cans connected by a string rather than a cell phone.
Also, if a ferromantic Leyline were harnessed it could power something electronic if the right conversions were done. But one of the problems with anything like that is the council at large. They are old, and set in their ways. They will in all likelyhood, opt against anything younger than a hundred years old at least. See the person manning the switchboard in Changes. that lady acted like a 1920's opperator.

[Paynesgrey]

Has anyone thought of just bringing Ivy cookies?