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Technology Levels in Society
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Societies may be classified according to the highest technologies in common use, though of course every higher technology society contains elements of simpler technologies. While most of the Civilized Galaxy is based on High Tech, societies based on other tech levels — from the lowest primtech to the highest transapientech — can be found throughout the Terragen Sphere. Ever since the advent of the First Singularity, the design and control of the highest tech levels has been out of the hands of ordinary sapients and their organizations. For societies dependent on those technologies, the effects of this may be profound.
Sub-Topics
| High Tech Societies | Low Tech Societies | Middle Tech Societies |
| Primitive Tech Societies | Transapientech Societies |
Articles
- Galaxy Brain - Text by M. Alan Kazlev modified from Anders Sandberg's Transhumanist Terminology
A form of distributed intelligence; an intelligent being with parts spread across an entire galaxy. If not linked by wormholes, the internal communication lags would be on the order of tens of thousands years. - Kardaschev Types - Text by M. Alan Kazlev
Classification of civilization types according to energy usage. - Progression of Technology in Terragen Civilisation - Text by Todd Drashner and Steve Bowers
A short outline of the development of technology in the Orion Arm. - Rif - Text by M. Alan Kazlev
A ludd, an opponent of ultratech. Sometimes also applied to prims. [From Rifkinite, from Jeremy Rifkin, early Information Age opponent of genetic engineering and nanotech.] - Technomage - Text by M. Alan Kazlev
Broadly speaking, any individual who uses technologies that are clarketech ('magical') to the surrounding population. The word is used in at least three distinct senses.
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Development Notes
Text by M. Alan Kazlev
modified by Stephen Inniss
Initially published on 10 March 2003.
modified by Stephen Inniss
Initially published on 10 March 2003.
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