>>At this point I'm halfway convinced that it's not so much a
>>screwdriver as a backdoor hack into Yggdrasil's systems, giving him
>>limited admin privileges, that he just disguised as a sonic
>>screwdriver.
>
>Within the UF context, I wouldn't be surprised if much of the Time
>Lords' technology operated that way. Gryphon did say something at
>some point about the Doctor being a really firm believer in the
>converse of Clarke's Law (i.e. the notion that there might be
>apparently-magical phenomena that even a Time Lord could not
>unravel by application of scientific method is repugnant to him).
>However, several of the stories have commented that Gallifreyan tech
>seems magical, and that much of it was developed very long ago
>and/or by people who weren't interested in reproducibility (yeah, I'm
>looking at you, Omega), and they're no longer sure how it works
>themselves. So maybe they're hooked into the debugger APIs without
>knowing it.

I have oft mentioned that the new-series writers, especially, tend to treat the sonic as a magic wand.

I accept this as vindication thereof.