Oh, I like this. Bao isn't too sure he likes this new way of doing things at all!
Two notes: I don't actually think technology is progressing that quickly. It's a complaint fandom makes a lot, but in AtLA, the Fire Nation had steam ships, tanks, hydraulics, insulation and refrigeration systems, machinery factories, a lot of the hallmarks of the early industrial age, and beyond. We didn't have tanks here until we had cars, for example. I think what happened after the war is that the Fire Nation started sharing, and all of a sudden, there was a democratization of technology. Sometime after that, they made the jump to using electric and having radios, bringing them from the early Victorians to the Interbellum period in 70 years, roughly what it took in the real world. Second, if technology goes at the same pace as it has in our world, Korra could easily live to see the space age, at least the 1960s orbiting the earth/going to the moon variety. Avatar Jinora in this verse definitely has a cell phone.
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Re: Laying Aang to rest at the Southern Air Temple, Part 7/7
Date: 2012-05-15 03:24 pm (UTC)Two notes: I don't actually think technology is progressing that quickly. It's a complaint fandom makes a lot, but in AtLA, the Fire Nation had steam ships, tanks, hydraulics, insulation and refrigeration systems, machinery factories, a lot of the hallmarks of the early industrial age, and beyond. We didn't have tanks here until we had cars, for example. I think what happened after the war is that the Fire Nation started sharing, and all of a sudden, there was a democratization of technology. Sometime after that, they made the jump to using electric and having radios, bringing them from the early Victorians to the Interbellum period in 70 years, roughly what it took in the real world. Second, if technology goes at the same pace as it has in our world, Korra could easily live to see the space age, at least the 1960s orbiting the earth/going to the moon variety. Avatar Jinora in this verse definitely has a cell phone.