Faculty Lodge, where Guion resides while visiting the Academy, is higher tech than the cadets' accommodations:
Tamberly ascends in a gravity shaft;
the floor is soft and warm;
light shines from everywhere;
Guion's door vanishes, the reappears;
his transparent ceiling enhances starlight;
wall frames show moving, three-dimensional scenes, either recorded or live;
a machine brings drinks.
We become conscious of different levels within the Patrol. We would like to read a futuristic novel which, at the end, revealed itself to be set in a later period of the Time Patrol timeline.
2 comments:
It was mentioned that Everard's cohort of recruits was given deliberately "low-tech" quarters, to avoid distracting or intimidating them -- stuff he would have expected by about 2000.
The description is kept deliberately vague (clever!), but it includes adjustable furniture (available now, but not common) and access to a huge library of images, books, music, etc. (available now and prescient of Poul).
Kaor, Paul!
And besides Stirling's comments above, there's also the "swank" factor, we should expect higher ranks within the Patrol to have access to more advanced technology.
Ad astra! Sean
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