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Number 4 is kind of correct, but I suspect the family member means it in a magical kind of miraculous?
Right, as in something other than the result of careful research and development. She's just older and doesn't have the slightest idea how anything works, habitually trying three different appliances to warm up her coffee when the power goes out before realizing they all need electricity, so it's all just magic and mystery.
Then again, it's people like us who say things like "computers are just rocks we tricked into thinking by putting lightning inside of them" so I don't not get it.
Calling something magic because you're using that to mean "something made with science beyond my understanding" is definitely different from using it as "this is literally magic made by sorcerers".
One is a joke, the other is evidence of the failure of the educational system.
At least it's a real world demonstration of the concept that sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic