> I often think Traveller, and myself included, fails rather to *really* envisage TL14 worlds and what that

> would really mean in terms of skills, equipment and so on.

 

You can’t. It’s impossible. You just can’t fathom what may or may not happen, or how things turn out. That’s one of the reasons that MTU is TL9/TL10 because you can kind of extrapolate what that might look like because you can base it in what we have now, and what we might be able to achive. But further than that?

 

I mean who knew that smart phones and the internet would be the “cure” for teenage pregnancy? And we’re talking starting from 2006 here. It’s most likely to be access to health information that teenagers didn’t or wouldn’t have asked about before, which given the means to access they then learnt, or it’s that more of their time is spent on social media with their friends in their rooms alone rather than face to face, or it’s both, or it’s lots of marginal gains from lots of things including better education or availability of contraception and the information about them being more accessible etc.,  but it’s not something that you could have predicted. You could predict better access to information, but you can’t predict the effects of that access to information.

 

You can predict better communication technologies, but how could Marc have predicted social media in the ’77? Social media in 1977 was a fixed line phone or an add in a paper or periodical, how do you get from that to facebook, wechat, twitter, tick tok, tinder, or snapchat? (other social media platforms are available).