10-03-2021, 06:46 AM | #1 |
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First TL-9 items
With the Basic Set giving TL-9 as ~2025 what items now in R&D are likely to be the first of this TL on the Market? AR glasses? Self-driving cars?
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10-03-2021, 07:25 AM | #2 |
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Re: First TL-9 items
As far as I'm concerned, we're already TL9 in computer technology. My own hope is that bionic prostheses come along soon.
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10-03-2021, 07:49 AM | #3 |
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Re: First TL-9 items
Apple computers with the new custom made chip.
Thorium fission reactors. mRNA vaccines, pushed ahead a bit by recent events.
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10-03-2021, 08:18 AM | #4 |
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Re: First TL-9 items
We probably crossed over into TL9 levels of DR for the vest and trauma plates styles of armor some time ago. See Kenneth Peters' update on the subject in Pyramid 3/57 (itself 8 years old).
There are some limited production guns that exceed UT's numbers for conventional firearms even without electrothermal technology. They just use higher pressures without electrothermal. Actually the not-so-rare S&W .500 Magnum pistol exceeds Gurps TL9 numbers and is more than a decade old. I know of a 7.5mm pistol that does about 4d P which is a little more than a UT TL electrothermal in that caliber (without goign from P- to P too). The thrust-to-weight ratios for Spacex's current rocket engines exceed any given for any TL in Ve2.
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10-03-2021, 10:47 AM | #6 |
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Re: First TL-9 items
Aren't we using artificial retroviruses to do genetic engineering? Or am I just misinterpreting how that works?
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10-03-2021, 11:26 AM | #7 |
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Re: First TL-9 items
Nope, quality bonuses do not raise firearms damage. We might be looking at a place where Gurps has mis-estimated where the limits of firearms damage are but materials, weight and chamber pressure are where all the important differences in firearms between TL6 and TL8 are. If crossing one breakpoint takes you from TL 6 to 7 and then to 8 then crossing another might well take you to 9.
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10-03-2021, 12:25 PM | #8 |
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Re: First TL-9 items
We can do, for certain values of 'artificial', but I don't think it's actually a preferred approach at this point. Not that I have a good survey of what genomic manipulation methods are popular. There are other options for achieving genomic integration of new material that are used a lot and have probably better properties and better hype both, though.
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10-03-2021, 06:39 PM | #10 |
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Re: First TL-9 items
Many of the systems required for self driving cars are already here. We already have (adaptive) cruise control, lane departure warning, automatic brakes. What is needed is work to tie these systems together.
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