[TML] A Plague of Spacemen

[Ewan Quibell]

James Ramsay wrote:

> New technology is often disruptive even in the cultures that developed 
> it, I don't think their is a way to introduce radical tech that won't 
> cause disruption. The closest you could get to minimal disruption, while 
> still helping low-techers, would be to black box everything and have off 
> worlders actually run and repair it. But that is treating the 
> low-techers like children, and nobody likes that.

The key to sustained continued TL development from any level is resource 
and education.

If you don't have enough resource (people, material, power etc.) you 
can't sustain the increased TL economy, and if you don't understand it 
you can't maintain or improve apon it.

Also TL development has to be gradual, and by that I mean that you may 
be able to go from say TL5 to TL7 relivivly easily, but you can't teach 
or educate a TL1 sociaty with TL15 knowledge becasue you wouldn't have 
the infrastructure to be able to teach it with. For example try 
educating an TL1 sociaty about AI without even a computer. Not the best 
example or explination, but I'm sure you get my point.

Best Regards

Ewan
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