>Right, but we're not talking about knowledge here, we're talking about
>the ability to *produce* a certain level of technology, i.e. industry.
>(Tech level 15 *knowledge* ought to be available from your local library
>data terminal on most Imperial worlds.) For the ability to *produce* a
>certain level of technology to `go away' you'd have to have a *severe*
>economic down turn like the Long Night or the Viral Collapse.
The trick is, they're related. You can't simply nhave TL15 knowledge. You
also have to have references to TL14, TL13, TL12, etc to build upon. All of
this takes up space, whther physical or virtual. To use modern equipmetn
analogies, if a world can't afford, or decides to redirect its prioroites,
it may have less "disk space" than is required to hold all the Imperial
TL15 data. So sure, a few places may act as repositories of information,
but it may not be very available, and the world will still have (generally)
access to only TL x.
>*no* space project has been cancelled or postponed due to budgetary
>constraints. Budget decisions represent a redirection of *priorities*,
>not a lack of economic resources.
And why do we redirect those priorites? Because we can't afford to explore
all of them equally. Six of one - I said it was half empty, and you said
itwas half full.
Creativity over Originality.
Consistency is a Flaw.
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