Subject: 75:10/7715 Tech growth
T::>Right. I will give you those decades. I'll even make them centuries. So the
::>question becomes: Regina was TL 9 in 275. Why did Regina gain only one TL i
::>EIGHT centuries and two more in two decades?
Hypothesis: Because TL10 represents what I call a "catalyst"
point. Once you have the ability to manufacture, locally, certain
things at TL10, it acts as sort of a "jump start" for later
technology. Consider Earth itself - many millennia at stone, then,
a number of centuries at brass, then, a few centuries at iron,
then, once steel is discovered, the exponential curve becomes
apparent. Perhaps TL9 is a sort of plateau, the limit of what
planetbound tech can achieve. Then, you have to develop an
economical "maneuver" drive to get out to the asteroids, where it
becomes possible to discover the principles of jump drive. Jump,
and the associated technologies, act as the next catalyst, and
those technologies build on each other, just like solid-state
computers built on vacuum-tube computers built on basic tube
electronics built on an understanding of electrical theory built
on observations of what happens when magnets interact with other
things...
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Jeff Zeitlin [email removed]
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