Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14138255-20160807005311/@comment-107.15.118.67-20160822020630

73.Anon.52 wrote: 80.192.6.40 wrote: Semblances atrophying technology? Interesting concept and not a bad one. not atrophying, but jump-starting, Aura and dust however both jump-start and make redundancy... If you have electricity at your fingertips in the form of dust, you skip the long advancement of getting to that point, you also don't have call for technology that shoots lightning., fire dust does similar things with technology such as cars and guns, while ice/water/wind make refrigeration/air conditioning technology redundant.

What I was referring to with Semblances jump-starting and making computing possible was for example; Robotics could easily have been inspired by clone type semblances, because they demonstrate the value of action economy, it could be possible that some kind of "nerd semblance"'s exist to shortcut computing, like demonstrating binary or shortcutting the process of Quartz technology to bypass our current type of computer chip entirely and store more data.

The point being that because each semblance essentially makes a superhero, perhaps that makes most ordinary technological improvements in remnant akin to the "batman solution". The way I see it, Remnant is still in the dark ages, around the time China made the gun, maybe a century or two after that. They still haven't created an energy source, rather using natural crystals to do the job for them. Imagine if all the dust in the world just..turned to dust. Didnt work. Dissappeared. Then That's exactly where Remnant woulb be left at. The dark ages. Also, they're use of swords, shields, and blades in general suggest that they havent strayed too far from the tree, like the modern world has, where the military uses only guns are rarely swords.