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AlexanderHowl · 11-10-2019, 08:32 AM

We do not have hard AI or real time virtuality (VR games are pre-programmed, not real time). Robot cars are emergent (+1 TL is possible under invention rules for 3xcost), we do not have space elevators, and we do not have manned interplanetary space travel. The weapons and armor are emergent (3xcost) or nonexistent. The energy technology is either emergent (3×cost) or, with deuterium-hydrogen fusion, non-existent (the conspiracy is not in the suppression but in not investing sufficient money in the research). The biotechnology is either emergent (3×cost) or nonexistent.

So, we are late TL8 with a few emergent TL9 technologies (though most are nonexistent). We might break TL9 by 2030, there is some rather interesting work in clean meat that is clearly TL9, and it is on track for maturity in 2030. The same applies to many of the other technologies (artificial wombs seem to be much more complicated than originally envisioned though, and it might just be easier to genetically engineer cows to carry human fetuses to term).

11-10-2019, 08:32 AM	#21
AlexanderHowl Join Date: Feb 2016	Re: TL 9 Police Tactics We do not have hard AI or real time virtuality (VR games are pre-programmed, not real time). Robot cars are emergent (+1 TL is possible under invention rules for 3xcost), we do not have space elevators, and we do not have manned interplanetary space travel. The weapons and armor are emergent (3xcost) or nonexistent. The energy technology is either emergent (3×cost) or, with deuterium-hydrogen fusion, non-existent (the conspiracy is not in the suppression but in not investing sufficient money in the research). The biotechnology is either emergent (3×cost) or nonexistent. So, we are late TL8 with a few emergent TL9 technologies (though most are nonexistent). We might break TL9 by 2030, there is some rather interesting work in clean meat that is clearly TL9, and it is on track for maturity in 2030. The same applies to many of the other technologies (artificial wombs seem to be much more complicated than originally envisioned though, and it might just be easier to genetically engineer cows to carry human fetuses to term).