tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-937390557356997344.post1433306088981329325..comments2024-03-22T03:59:39.188-07:00Comments on Dive into Worldbuilding: Does your technology form a set?Juliette Wadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02879627074920760712noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-937390557356997344.post-34832860078919878632008-08-22T07:29:00.000-07:002008-08-22T07:29:00.000-07:00Is it sort of a chicken and the egg thing, though?...Is it sort of a chicken and the egg thing, though? Take the Hawaiians, for example. They didn't have metal of any sort until the Europeans showed up. That didn't stop them from constructing some pretty formidible weapons with wood and shark's teeth.<br><br>On the other hand, that makes the question about space travel so interesting, doesn't it? At what point to space travellers stop being heroes voyaging in tin cans to stargoing cruisers? It seems that raising (or decreasing) technology in one area is bound to bleed into others. If the Enterprise can go FTL, the powers that give makes replicators, holodecks and junior officers with their own cabins a reasonable part of the milleu. If, on the other hand, FTL never happens, then continuing to explore space when a return on the investment is thousands of years away, that's a very different society than the one we have today.Bill Moonroehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03590245158747490652noreply@blogger.com