It's been so long since the last GURPS edition, that the present day is now in the "future" tech level

[stonehead]

 

[darjr]

Kinda on the spot. Doesn’t mean the AI is any good.

 

[Leatherhead]

Oh wow, GURPS predicted V-tubers.

 

[Celebrim]

I'm not at all convinced by this timeline. I feel we are not quite in TL8 yet, which in the version of GURPS I had was supposed to start around 2000, but where we are maybe having a hint we might reach if we don't slide into another Dark Age.

 

[Joshua Randall]

That’s awesome. Needs to be an XKCD comic.

 

[MGibster]

I'm not at all convinced by this timeline. I feel we are not quite in TL8 yet, which in the version of GURPS I had was supposed to start around 2000, but where we are maybe having a hint we might reach if we don't slide into another Dark Age.

It changed with 4th edition. When I first started playing GURPS in the late 1980s, TL 7 was 1950s-2000 and included nuclear power, miniaturization, and computers. TL 8 in the old version included fusion power and robots. We're certainly not there yet.

 

[John Dallman]

It changed with 4th edition. When I first started playing GURPS in the late 1980s, TL 7 was 1950s-2000 and included nuclear power, miniaturization, and computers. TL 8 in the old version included fusion power and robots. We're certainly not there yet.

The basis for Tech Levels changed at 4th edition. In 3e, it was largely on the basis of how much energy you could harness. Now it's mostly about the smallest things you can make and use. If it is revised again, there may well be another basis.

Predicted futures always tell you more about your own era than the future that ends up happening.

 

[Jd Smith1]

One thing that old age has taught me, is that the future seldom looks like you imagined, or hoped for.

And that there is a constant stream of 'in thirty years...' predictions. In the 70s, for instance, we were supposed to have run out of oil and be fighting wars over cropland by the 2000s. And have an Ice Age underway.

My dad's high school yearbook, circa 1948, predicted flying cars.

As always, the truth is stranger than fiction, because fiction demands a degree of logic.

 

[VelvetViolet]

I think Alternity’s tech levels are more current despite being 26 years old and never receiving a revision. We’re still in PL5 Information Age, since we haven’t yet developed practical fusion to enter PL6 Fusion Age.

 

[BigJackBrass]

We’re still in PL5 Information Age, since we haven’t yet developed practical fusion to enter PL6 Fusion Age.

Don't worry, it's only ten years away!