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Technology in Leviathan
Hello_Sailor:
Just because something is invented doesn't mean it'll be a hit. (Case in point, Segway human transporter.)
waxesnostalgic:
--- Quote from: Lin Lin-chan on July 14, 2010, 06:58:28 PM ---yeah... the thing about movies is that Edison invented them, and you can't really edit out Edison. We use his inventions so often that if he hadn't invented the things he invented the world would be even more different than even in Leviathan.
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I think that most of the stuff that he invented we would have eventually come around to... a lot of people were working on the electric light and such. Alek says that they have electric lights, but there are no mentions of movies or recorded sound or anything like that. Maybe some enterprising Clanker scientist came up with them instead.
A lot of their technology seems to be far ahead of our 1914, such as planes and land machines in warfare (apparently they were using them even before the war...) but I imagine that some other things are a bit behind.
I wonder what the Darwinists would use for recorded sound... iLizard? XD For some reason, I always think of the Flintstones using animals to do everyday tasks. ;D
Shadow-Thief:
Luckily for us the human being wants to move foward and advance...so that we will never be stuck in one technology era for forever...
Hello_Sailor:
In a way, we do stay in the same technology era. Basic designs stay the same, with only minor changes. Scott-la talks about it in the video from the BEA steampunk panel.
http://scottwesterfeld.com/blog/2010/05/steampunk-panel-at-bea/
America La:
I've thought about that too, Alek also mentions at one point that during the Nineteenth Century tractors where on treds like modern day tanks (I forget where, I just remember it happening) so the Clankers technology isn't any sort of new development, having existed for a least a hundred years previous to 1914.
I've also been wondering (ya, I'm skipping ahead to WWII) in the Leviathen universe would the United States have ever developed the Manhatten Poject, there for creating the first atomic bomb. How would this affect the cold war? Also during the Russian revolution would it be a switch from Darwinist to Clanker or from Tsarist to Communist, and how would those points affect the future cold war?
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