05-25-2018, 08:14 AM | #1 |
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THS 2120!
If we were to relaunch the setting placing in 100 years on, what changes would be most needed? Which would be the most fun?
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05-25-2018, 09:43 AM | #3 |
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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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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. |
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05-25-2018, 12:26 PM | #5 |
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Re: THS 2120!
Like all interesting fiction, THS takes liberties with physics and sensibility.
As a setting conceit, biology is simpler and more predictable than in reality. So 20 years could easily lead to more "low-grade" superscience.
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05-25-2018, 04:22 PM | #6 |
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Technological progress is related to economics. A great deal of 20th century technological progress involved putting the real economy ahead of the paper economy. If the financial interests are forced to take a back seat again, as in the 1940-1975 period, then rapid progress would be the norm again.
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05-25-2018, 06:09 PM | #7 | |
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But I'd still probably leave that for another ten years. THS 2230 here we come |
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05-25-2018, 06:14 PM | #8 | |
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As for the Real world, the last I heard there may, just _may_ be a sample of stabilized metallic hydrogen in a cryostat awaiting analysis. That was a couple of months ago. We can't et say whether or not this will ever be an important technology.
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05-25-2018, 09:37 PM | #9 | |
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If you want THS 2120 to look seriously different than THS2100, you need one or both of two things: a change in the basic kind of technological advancement, not just a speed-up, and/or a major political/social/cultural upheaval. A major System-wide war would do it, something serious, not just Pacific War II. So would scientific breakthroughs leading to new areas of advancement (and the two could easily come together, one triggering the other). But if 20 years just means faster computers and so forth, not too much will be different.
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05-26-2018, 12:46 AM | #10 |
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Touché. And I'll accept non-inclusion of HEDM if THS2120 gives a 'full go' to all the genies that newer (particularly 4e) THS books and articles tried to push back into the bottle (purely optical computing, actually TL9-TL10 memetics, polykeratin etc.).
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