We are using automation and adaptive algorithms (and AI) sporadically in R&D as is, and this trend will only continue.Įven if Humans stopped developing things themselves, automation would continue. It's like tens (or hundreds) of thousands of copies spread throughout 8000 Ly's of space (by the late 24th century). In Trek, nothing like that happened, and it would be extremely difficult (if not impossible) to do so because, copies of UFP databases exist in every ship, station, outpost, member planet, etc. who the freaking heck wrote that nonsense?Ĭlick to expand.The thing is we have no frame of reference for comparison purposes (at least not from the perspective of looking at technologically advanced societies).īut the way I see it, once technology and science start evolving exponentially, there is really no way to stop that from continuing (short of a massive planetary disaster from wiping all our infrastructure and majority of the people with the know how as is before we take precautions that would protect us and our knowledge). I guess its one of those things Trek writers don't really think about (much like they ignore the fact that research and schematics on a working next gen Spore Drive would be in their database and they could just replicate it at will and not make a huge fuss as if someone stealing the prototype would prevent UFP from making another one. Its also possible that Booker installed a scattering field on his ship because of that incident with the Quwat Milat.Īlthough, it still pains me to see SF is NOT using automation for R&D which would literally do this type of thing in the background and implement it instantenously once its done - this way, progress would have occurred during the Burn and inspite of it. and I think it would need to change.Ĭlick to expand.Its likely that Starfleet was able to improve upon existing things in the 6 months since the Burn what with Osyraa and Emerald Chain not causing problems. So, this wasn't really accurately depicted in Trek. In fact, in a society that has access to replicators and can easily disassemble matter into base elements and reconstitute them into something else (which we can technically do too, albeit differently and slower), it would be a proverbial piece of cake to replace say somethign which has been created and used for 4 or 5 years (maybe 10) with something else by using the harvested materials from the older piece of technology (its also known as technical efficiency - the ability to produce more with less).Īdaptive algorithms and AI can be used to integrate new technology into pre-existing systems far faster than humans ever could (by hundreds of thousands of times or millions of times faster). In Trek, sticking to something for extended periods of time wouldn't be viable. we are literally experiencing an acceleration of acceleration. we DO have maglev technology which could probably be used towards this, but the economies of scale hadn't reached the point (just yet) where we could scale down the technology to use it like that efficiently.įor humanity in real life, technology and science evolve exponentially. Well, actually, this isn't necessarily the case. technology and science hadn't progressed to the point where we could surpass the use of small explosive charges to propel smll pieces of metal at high velocity. The main reason we stuck with something for a long time is due to a few reasons:Ģ. so, this kind of comparison wouldn't work for Trek and UFP which is a collection of FTL capable societies that have been experiencing fast technological and scientific breakthroughs on a continuous basis. We are at a proverbial 'beginning' of changing every aspect we are familiar with. As a species, we had a pretty stagnant period of development up until the industrial revolution (which is when things started getting more.
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