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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 8807643" data-attributes="member: 82106">Right, I think they were pretty knowledgeable on the topic. It is just interesting, and typical of all of Traveller, that there is very little extrapolation of the EFFECTS of technology on society/politics/business/etc. I mean, there is in the sense of the deliberate construct of the Jump Drive and their postulation of an empire based on that, but in terms of extrapolating what advanced computation, communications, intelligence, or anything like what we now call machine learning, there is basically nothing. I mean, it gets pretty obvious too! Like Striker MBTs ARE high performance spacecraft, a grav tank can literally do anything a ship's boat or HG small craft can do, and has pretty analogous weapon systems. Yet, the described military doctrines and organization are suitable to something like a Soviet invasion of Western Europe c. 1975. I mean, if your tanks are hypersonic and capable of flying to other planets (or at least orbit) I don't think military doctrine is going to faintly resemble that, and in fact its hard to imagine even thinking in terms of 'ground forces' or 'tanks' at all. lol. That is paralleled by Traveller's total lack of attention to concepts like robotics, prosthetics, androids, biological engineering, etc. etc. etc. Eventually each of these got a fairly cursory visit in a supplement or article, but they were clearly not intended to be part of the 'core game'. Now, back in 1977 perhaps this was not so glaringly obvious, but nowadays when we already have capabilities that are just flat out not even thought of in Traveller, or not considered as being important, its hard a bit blatant.</blockquote>

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