Tuesday 14 July 2020

Technome

Gaia's Technome emulation represents what the world of Kalava's period might become with political unification, i.e., imperial conquest, and technological advance. The sociology is deeply uninteresting - nobles and commons - whereas the technology has a bit more going for it:

biological sciences
agronomy
aquaculture in remnant lakes and seas
practical genetics
industrial chemistry
nineteenth century level physics
substantial engineering
reclamation
attempted interplanetary rocketry

A post-human anthropoid bred only to serve stands imperturbable during a sudden appearance of visitors from another world.

If the Technome can build rockets, then so can Kalava's people - and escape from the dying Earth.

1 comment:

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

I suggest that the sociology of the nations of Kalava's time was uninteresting because a dying Earth did not provide men with the means needed to be as socially varied as mankind had been in more fortunate, richer times in the past.

And that was the problem for Kalava's possible successors, in Gaia's emulation, being fictional, they could not leave Earth. But I certainly the real people of Kalava's future would indeed leave the dying Earth.

Ad astra! Sean