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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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Re: THS 2120!
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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05-25-2018, 10:54 AM | #4 | |
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Re: THS 2120!
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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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Re: THS 2120!
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, 06:14 PM | #7 | |
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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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05-26-2018, 12:46 AM | #8 |
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Re: THS 2120!
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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05-25-2018, 06:09 PM | #9 | |
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But I'd still probably leave that for another ten years. THS 2230 here we come |
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