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Originally Posted by Fred Brackin
That would be pretty much a question of how you wanted to guesstimate technological progress of 20 years. There's nothing I know of in the last 20 years that makes the original TS estimate obviously too conservative.
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I'm pretty sure that THS diverged from our timeline earlier than in the 2000s, since it needed some preconditions for the very rapid space race. But from that divergence point, N+20 years of development offers better tech than N+0.
Plus it's just very annoying that a setting that calls itself Transhuman
Space lacks such a basic non-TL^, mere TL9 technology despite being closer to TL10 than 9 in general.