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Originally Posted by David Johnston2
Which has nothing to do with tech level any more than I'd give a planet of telepaths a high communications tech level. Superpowers are not technology. Technology can be invented using them or otherwise based on them, but that has not as yet happened on Yrth.
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Using 'superpowers' to systematically enhance agricultural yields is definitely technology (divergent, sure) and in low-tech periods where agriculture is practically the entire economy could
very easily boost your main TL. Even with 'everything but agriculture' as delayed technology.
Technology doesn't mean hardware. Ideas and techniques with no associated tools can still be technology.
EDIT: Of course a flip side of this is that the existence of the raw materials needed for a technology doesn't imply that technology is actually implemented.