Are these realistic predictions of 28th century technology?

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For my human faction, I've been trying to make the technology employed viable/ feasible for the timeperiod- the 26-2700s.


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This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but a whimper.
Is the story's placement in the 27th century necessary or contingent?

I would revise down the time, if it isn't necessary.


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You can believe that but by then humanity and the whole world would have changed. I remember reading book that was crazy cool where although the bodies were elsewhere their minds were controlling a body huge distances away. Mainly to traverse a new area.

Also memories could be edited i feel.

If you really want to understand the future you could to push your mind to think of shit that is truly mindfuck and stupid and crazy. Think of new concepts and things that have never existed before. Like Light Roads.


 
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The thing about technology and all that into the future, is we base it on things we already know and understand, where as by that time things will be so vastly different.

Heck, look at now from 100 years ago. No one would have ever predicted the internet being a thing, nor being able to hold a device that allows you to communicate with everyone in the world, as well as be a small mobile computer.


 
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But you need paragraphs. In the 28th century.


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Is the story's placement in the 27th century necessary or contingent?

I would revise down the time, if it isn't necessary.

I have a lot of events to cover- a 700 year gap leaves roughly 100 years of expansion before the first major interstellar war, another fifty before first contact and the remaining centuries that show the humans gradually gain power, eventually creating many anti-alien policies, though of course by that point, they control the most powerful military who also think very likewise. However, the alien species get to space roughly within the two hundred years above and below the 21st century, so all the main species are on a similar technological level.

but otherwise, because I'm doing a lot of worldbuilding, 700 years gives me a lot of room to move when placing events and the introductions of certain weapons, vehicles, ships and the founding of colonies.


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But you need paragraphs. In the 28th century.
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I copied this from a post I made on haloarchive. Give me five to clear it up- the bbcode works slightly different so it fucks up paragraphs.


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You can believe that but by then humanity and the whole world would have changed. I remember reading book that was crazy cool where although the bodies were elsewhere their minds were controlling a body huge distances away. Mainly to traverse a new area.

Also memories could be edited i feel.

If you really want to understand the future you could to push your mind to think of shit that is truly mindfuck and stupid and crazy. Think of new concepts and things that have never existed before. Like Light Roads.

There are some technologies that I'm not really going into- partially because for some things (Such as hard light), you then bring up the matter of why ships aren't made of hard light or in the case of remote bodies, why there are some of the cultural differences and hatreds between some species. Plus, I want to keep this semi grounded in reality, if that makes sense. for instance, the largest sturctures only measure roughly 15km end to end, and that is the biggest space station. I don't reallty want  to go into the Forerunner scale of technology, I have another scifi universe for that.

Plus, my massively superior needs somehing to make itself at least marginally superior to the Imperium, and antimatter weapons can't be their only advantage.


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The thing about technology and all that into the future, is we base it on things we already know and understand, where as by that time things will be so vastly different.

Heck, look at now from 100 years ago. No one would have ever predicted the internet being a thing, nor being able to hold a device that allows you to communicate with everyone in the world, as well as be a small mobile computer.

I'm not denying that. I like to think I'm keeping some semblance of realism in my work though- in my lore, most colonies have their own unique language(s) and cultures, much like countries on Earth. However, there is ver limited time control/ travel (Obviously they can't travel through time, but it is used for stasis fields and the like) , and advanced wormhole technology exists as well as things like Quantum Entanglement. I am looking at real physics for most of my technologies and trying to provide a workaround that will allow everythin to comply mostly with known laws, expect for the factor that in a few centuries there is the technology to, say, insta-jump to lightspeed or something like that.


 
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remember how everyone 20-30 years ago thought that we would have flying cars by now?



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remember how everyone 20-30 years ago thought that we would have flying cars by now?

I'd say there's a difference between, say, nanotecholgoy that can repair damn near anything on the battlefield in minutes with a 700 year time gap and flying cars and hoverboards in a 30 year time gap.

But yeah, it's like how in aliens, laptops were like, a supercool thing in the 2X00's (When is aliens set anyway?) to control turrets but now smaller computers are more common than regular ones.


 
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remember how everyone 20-30 years ago thought that we would have flying cars by now?

I'd say there's a difference between, say, nanotecholgoy that can repair damn near anything on the battlefield in minutes with a 700 year time gap and flying cars and hoverboards in a 30 year time gap.

But yeah, it's like how in aliens, laptops were like, a supercool thing in the 2X00's (When is aliens set anyway?) to control turrets but now smaller computers are more common than regular ones.
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(When is aliens set anyway?)
2119, or somewhere around that.


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remember how everyone 20-30 years ago thought that we would have flying cars by now?

I'd say there's a difference between, say, nanotecholgoy that can repair damn near anything on the battlefield in minutes with a 700 year time gap and flying cars and hoverboards in a 30 year time gap.

But yeah, it's like how in aliens, laptops were like, a supercool thing in the 2X00's (When is aliens set anyway?) to control turrets but now smaller computers are more common than regular ones.
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(When is aliens set anyway?)
2119, or somewhere around that.

Huh.


 
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remember how everyone 20-30 years ago thought that we would have flying cars by now?

I'd say there's a difference between, say, nanotecholgoy that can repair damn near anything on the battlefield in minutes with a 700 year time gap and flying cars and hoverboards in a 30 year time gap.

But yeah, it's like how in aliens, laptops were like, a supercool thing in the 2X00's (When is aliens set anyway?) to control turrets but now smaller computers are more common than regular ones.
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(When is aliens set anyway?)
2119, or somewhere around that.

Huh.
I may be wrong but this is my logic to it

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