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<blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 9549891" data-attributes="member: 4937"><p>More to the point, when I bought the rules and played we were according to the rules TL7 and TL8 was &quot;the future&quot;, and the future could be recognized by things being &quot;different&quot;.&nbsp; There was going to be &quot;game changing&quot; technology in TL8.&nbsp; And the thing is, everything now just feels like slightly evolved versions of stuff we've had since the 1970s if not earlier.&nbsp; There have been zero obvious advances in science, zero new things, just miniaturized or faster versions of old things.&nbsp; I'm not sure when things evolve sufficiently so that we can say the memory sticks we have now are a full tech level above a floppy disk, or the PCs we have now are a full tech level above a 286.&nbsp; It's not like having Fusion Power or Mars Bases or Cybernetic Interfaces or something we just didn't have before that you can put on a list as markers that identify the tech level.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Celebrim, post: 9549891, member: 4937"] More to the point, when I bought the rules and played we were according to the rules TL7 and TL8 was "the future", and the future could be recognized by things being "different". There was going to be "game changing" technology in TL8. And the thing is, everything now just feels like slightly evolved versions of stuff we've had since the 1970s if not earlier. There have been zero obvious advances in science, zero new things, just miniaturized or faster versions of old things. I'm not sure when things evolve sufficiently so that we can say the memory sticks we have now are a full tech level above a floppy disk, or the PCs we have now are a full tech level above a 286. It's not like having Fusion Power or Mars Bases or Cybernetic Interfaces or something we just didn't have before that you can put on a list as markers that identify the tech level. [/QUOTE]

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