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Originally Posted by Ravensknight
Conspiracies abound that public tech is around 10-15 years behind what actually exists. It actually wouldn't surprise me if that was true...
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Pfft. It's not just possibly true. It is *very* true. I remember growing up there was a friend of mine who ran a company (several actually) that produced some pretty awesome technology for the day. Well, come to find out if you went in the back room, they had some stuff on the shelves back there that's was so advanced, we still haven't reached a level in modern society yet where they could be used, either due to lack of supporting infrastructure, or associated technologies. Some of them required a variety of associate technologies (which we haven't even seen yet in general public use) in order to function that still don't exist to this day.
Heck, we were using Matrix and Minority Report (and to some degree Avatar) type technology way back in the late 70's, early 80's! And I'm not joking one single bit on that. In fact, his company wasn't the only one that had that issue. AT&T's Bell Labs was another one that was well known for having super advanced technologies they couldn't release for various reasons. But mismanagement and other issues have killed that so that what's left of Bell Labs is a joke today. So yeah, there's a lot of REALLY advanced technology out there, but none of it can be released yet because either A) we're not ready for it due to how advanced it is, or B) the supporting infrastructure isn't there yet, or if it is, it's not large enough to support these new technologies. Once it is, you had better hold onto your butts because we're gonna get slammed with some pretty incredible stuff.