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What could be the next technological revolution for a society that has FTL travel tech? [closed]
In a society with FTL travel tech that is relatively mature (like a Star Wars or Star Trek civilization), what could be the next technological breakthrough BESIDES teleportation (as I feel ...
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How might a civilization that comes after us be aided by the fact someone has been here and done it before?
Suppose a hypothetical apocalypse scenario that wipes out all human beings, but leaves infrastructure and the like behind. In particular, digital technologies are mostly unaffected. Consider then, ...
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How might civilization develop if hunter-gatherers and/or early agrarian civilizations had access to highly advanced technology? [closed]
Imagine a setting where, across numerous worlds: people without memory, identity or culture wake up surrounded by the ruins and technologies of a highly advanced spacefaring civilization that ...
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What could Kaiju do to stop us from travelling into deep space?
The world's overrun with Kaiju but, while they kill many and cause much destruction, our civilization continues, migrating inward, away from the coasts where the Kaiju typically occupy.
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At what point should I halt humanity's development so that they don't start destroying habitats? How can I achieve this? [closed]
I'm creating a world where it's impossible for human civilization do develop to the point that they could start seriously destroying habitats. I'm not even talking about the industrial revolution. ...
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Could a single, hyper-advanced civilization develop among many unadvanced societies?
In my world, there is a confederacy of citystates, ruled by witches and Pagans. They left to escape persecution from Christians (of my world) in the 13th-14th centuries, though they do not know that ...
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Would a civilization advance faster in technology if they had access to much easier energy sources? Such as, say, fusion with 1800's tech? [closed]
Suppose we go to some hypothetical world that has 1800's technology, and then give them (via handwavium) some technology that is on par with fusion or better (may be more handwavium), and also make it ...
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When many animal and plant materials are comparable to modern materials, why would any civilization develop metal working?
So, in the setting I've created, there are many animal and plant materials which are comparable to modern materials and some even greater than what can be made today.
For example, there are molluscs ...
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What trains would survive a post-apocolypse [closed]
My world is in the distant future. While there were nukes, they were not used entirely, and there were many bioweapons like the t virus. The world has a few major governments still standing, but are ...
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Why would civilizations have no major technological development even after ten thousand years?
Basic Introduction (story background for anyone interested)
I have a character whose punishment for causing massive genocide was immortality for ten thousand years. To be more specific, after his ...
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How advanced could a society of intelligent magpies get with help from humans?
How advanced could a society of smart magpies get with help from humans? The magpies have the assistance of near future humans. These magpies are regular Australian magpies, aside from their ...
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How would a world with limited access to modern technology work?
The setting is a semi-modern fantasy world with pockets of population separated by huge expanses of wild land where monsters and other predatory creatures live, keeping civilization from expanding too ...
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How far could a society technologically advance without using iron?
In my world, sapient beings cannot access iron for use in technology or anything else.
Iron does exist, in the same quantities as that on Earth, but no one can access it, so as general element ...
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How far could civilisation develop within one lifetime - starting from nothing?
This question here asked if it would be possible to reach the moon within a lifetime for a civilisation starting with "nothing". The answer to that question, quite clearly, is: no way.
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What type of shelters would need / create this arboreal civilization, if any?
Currently building the civilisations of my world, I found myself stuck on a particular aspect of the arboreal civilization, and would be very grateful for any tip (Tall trees : selective pressure).
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