>From: Jot Powers <books at bofh.com> >Reply-To: Jot Powers <books at bofh.com> >To: dragaera at dragaera.info >Subject: Re: Two words about two letters etc. >Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 10:17:48 -0700 > >On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 10:03:59AM -0700, Andrew Lias wrote: > > I would place modern Dragaeran society at a 20th century level of >magical > > technology, with certain variations. The biggest thing that they lack >is > > anything analogous to computers but, by the same token, we don't have > > anything like their teleportation technology or the ability to put large > > permanent structures in the air (e.g., Castle Black). > >Don't forget the one that would be even more important than those >combined: > >revivification I gave those as examples of technologies that are completely disanologous. Although we can't revive the *literally* dead, our ability to perform heroic life saving operations has progressed to the point were we have, literally, had to push the definition of "dead" back quite a ways (consider the case of reviving hypothermia victims). And even Dragaeran revival has its limitations. _________________________________________________________________ The new MSN 8 is here: Try it free* for 2 months http://join.msn.com/?page=dept/dialup