This document summarizes Smule's product journey from 2011. It describes Smule, also known as Sonic Mule, experimenting with early sonic and visualization technologies to create soft glowing effects. It references Arthur C. Clarke's three laws about advanced technology appearing as magic. The document also shows Smule's growth over years, with increasing users on their Sonic Network platform. It concludes with Smule revising Clarke's laws to focus on how people use technology rather than what computers can do.

1. Runtime 2011: A Smulean product Odyssey

2. Runtime The dawn of man

3. Runtime And then...

4. Runtime Smule aka Sonic Mule His long fingers caressed [the visi-sonor] softly and slowly, pressing lightly on contacts with a rippling motion, resting themselves momentarily on one key then another - and in the air before them there was a soft glowing rosiness, just inside the range of vision.

5. Runtime The Mule: benign mind control

6. Runtime Following Clarke’s three laws When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; when he states that something is impossible, he is probably wrong. The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Arthur C. Clarke in the essay "Hazards of Prophecy: The Failure of Imagination”, 1962

7. Runtime TMA-1

9. Runtime After unplugging Hal...

10. The Space Odyssey Users 1 YEAR 2 YEARS Application Platform

11. Users 1 MONTH 1 YEAR 1 WEEK The direct route Application Platform: Sonic Network

12. Runtime Smule’s revised product laws The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Users speak in tongues yet they speak the truth. Old computing is about what computers can do. New computing is about what people do.