"The magic already exists but computer networks have only been around since the seventies. The developers mostly used mundane types of calculations then. It's really only a matter of putting the two together in ways that won't screw up too badly." He shrugs. "A lot of magic isn't super practical and there have been a lot of charlatans." He could go on, but he is possibly boring the man already, he considers.

"So you've been a teacher. For a really long time. Huh." He catches the grimace when he mentions wars.

It's like walking into a freezer. He takes care not to slip on the Plaza. "I thought someone was following me so I took a different route, turned a corner, tripped on a crack, and when I looked up everything in front of me was, well, this. Is that really what a portal looks like?" He goes over to it, studying it as well.