Why Does Star Wars Technology NEVER Advance?

[@user-mx8nr3sp6n]

Why does Star Wars tech never advance? For the same exact reason you can hear TIE Fighters in space.

[@AlexanderOsias]

Those aren’t sounds of the TIE fighters. That would be unrealistic. Those are the sounds of clone souls screaming in space.

[@jordanpowell2242]

Y and why droids never shut up

[@littlefoot3935]

Maybe they have some kind of technology that allows sound to travel in space?

[@CuppaLiber-tea]

We hear TIE fighters in space because...uh... quantum brainwaves?

[@caav56]

Or, you know, sound emulators, which use data from ship's sensors to create sounds for pilot and passengers.

[@lostalone1271]

Their technology is stuck in a 1970's view of the future.

[@obijuanquenobi1911]

S N basically

[@solt4r1]

I mean the first sw film was made in the 70’s I’m pretty sure (sorry I’ve never looked into it but it’s atleast near the 70’s)

[@jackykwan3241]

Umbaran: Hold up

[@AceTheCap823]

so 200,000 ago the Star Wars universe still had interstellar space travel wtf😭😭😭bro when was that universe like our level of technology or like cave man level

[@nicolaswithoutah1272]

My version of sw history: 30,000 bby earth today, 27,000 bby earth develops first warp drive, 25,000 - 22,000 bby Rokotans take over much of the galaxy, 17,000 bby Rokotans are overthrown and the core region is in a civil war, 15,000 bby coruscant (earth) takes over the core and make the hyperdrive. 11,500 - 11,000 bby coruscant war with Alsakan and at the end are united under the old republic, 8,000 bby the first modern blaster is created and slowly replaces slugthrowers, 4,000 - 3,600 bby sith vs jedi wars creating hammerhead cruiser and the ion cannon, 2,000 - 1,000 bby new sith wars, 1,000 - 22 bby golden age and then the end of the republic.

[@orionstark]

The peaking theory seems most logical to me. They simply have a full understanding of their natural laws with designing technology being more about engineering challenges than anything else and aesthetics taking precedent over functionality.

[@TheRezro]

I disagree. After all some technologies are so backward and nonsensical that it simply make no sense to be like that. I have alternative explanation: So, most technology is developed by the droids! We do know that they in fact run most of construction and are smarter then they appear. I personally wouldn't be surprised if most humans simply wouldn't posses full understanding of the technology, only giving directions to the droids who do the job. But as directions are ignorant, so also the result. It would explain why those are are so advanced when computing systems used by people look like Atari (and that even ignoring possibility that Force itself could be way more advanced Clarke's style nanotech).

[@GeneralKenobi75]

@@TheRezro Comparing it to series like Star Trek, which has teleportation tech, food and drink replicators, and devices that can completely regenerate tissue in minutes, Star Wars seems really backwards. Their tactics also seem very archaic since like at the Battle of Geonosis they have armies line up in old-style European formations and advance towards each other.

[@TheRezro]

@@GeneralKenobi75 Yup. It is why I do consider Star Wars as Techno Barbarism. Excluding Hyperdrive and technology of Celestials. Not further then thousandth years BBY, Jedi were running in metal armor and flying on space Galeon during battle of Ruusan (not a joke). Even if some regions did have access to advanced technology.

[@GeneralKenobi75]

@@TheRezro Exactly. They're essentially reusing technology over and over again. The designs might change, but the overall technology remains the same.

[@TheRezro]

@@GeneralKenobi75 Agree. But that also is symptom of Techno Barbarism.

[@bigtime69420]

maybe important plans like the death star plans were kept on physical storage devices because those can't be hacked

[@aaronorr5586]

We have a winner! Slicers (Star Wars lingo for Hackers) are a known risk so putting data onto proprietary closed access data systems and putting a metric F××× ton of guards and Naval power around the data repositories is a better idea than throwing the bits and bytes onto a intergalactic network that could be compromised by an intrepid and bored slicer operating out of his aunt's moisture farm basement on Tatooine.

[@FastDuDeJiunn]

exactly. cant hack what u cant access. i had someone hack my pc, take it over. pushing the power buttond did NOTHING lol........ i was like o yea. but u still need POWER BITCH. unplugged it lol. sobs were calling overseas 10dollars a minute - was back when stuff was dial up. the good times

[@Maggi9909]

@@aaronorr5586 right we have slicers, and the holonet

[@chrisellis2758]

If you want to keep a moon sized battle station connection off the grid for 2 decades you have to keep any mention of it off standard networks and use stuff like data storage devices

[@OzzyCrescat]

Small thing I want to add : Star Wars is essentially a mythical universe, like an old Norse Saga or Greek epos. In those stories, a lot of times passes or the story is set a long time ago (ringing a bell?), but the environnement doesn"t change (people have the same technology, outfit and culture than the time when it is written down) I wouldn't be suprised if they took that into account.

[@blitzn00dle50]

The Galactic empire could've stored the Death Star plans in Google Drive.

[@fryreviews693]

gravitee, and have the cd as a back up

[@beardedbjorn5520]

I just got a notification for this vid, but your comment was from 14 hours ago. Patreon?

[@williambrightman9970]

You would have had to worry about hackers

[@MrJay_White]

only for google and others to mysteriously have plans for their own death star. you realise google uses your data as a saleable commodity, right?

[@larry-three8225]

What if the Empires email servers were hacked by Rebel spy's?

[@JimGreen569]

The only change I saw was that things only got bigger.

[@robertagu5533]

Spaghetti Man an that most the weapons technology tended to get way more dangerous along with living and clothing options apparently

[@unsharded8503]

130th like

[@blasteroid1721]

That was the Empire's and the First Order's philosophy. Get big, then bigger, and then as big as possible until you run out of resources

[@eliasstein8440]

Blasteriod17 OMG... the mass creation of large expensive ships is draining the galaxy's resources so much that they won't be able to make new stuff!

[@pyeitme508]

If Earth(2018AD) is found by the old republic during 5000 BBY, Earth will isolate and find the weakness of the Star Wars universe then strike any resistance even there are challengers.

[@gfoog3911]

Technology actually gets better faster during wartime than peacetime

[@beerenmusli8220]

Nope. Technology evolves as quickly, but does not get used as instant. Who need E-Cars if you can sell Gasoline? While in a War, silent driving Humvees would be a insane advantage.

[@gfoog3911]

No I heard this in a documentary by *The History Channel*

[@beerenmusli8220]

And its true if you heard it in murican TC....

[@beerenmusli8220]

*TV

[@gfoog3911]

*DOCUMENTURY!*

[@universalchiro]

Technology growth would be a parabolic curve. It is impossible to sustain exponential technology growth.

[@kingofsauce1319]

If you can exponentially increase energy production you can exponentially increase technologically Provided enough energy pretty much anything is possible

[@universalchiro]

@@kingofsauce1319 Conservation of energy prevents sustained energy increase for too long because the total sum of energy and matter cannot increase or decrease. Most likely, logarithm curve would be applied, but not an infinite scale.

[@dudewatches6125]

Lmao, we will run out of possible music to create far before we run out of new ways to manipulate the physical universe. Technology is observably not a bell curve.

[@MWBalls]

Star Wars is a universe in which faster then light travel and communications have existed for 10s of 1000s of years. It seems to me that the universe hit a technological plateau, where technological advancements are mostly about percentile increases in efficiency, output, durability, etc. Brand new technologies, like the super laser, are extremely rare.

[@AlexeyFilippenkoPlummet]

This was the smoothest commercial transition in history of KZbin.

[@lamichka]

nope

[@beerenmusli8220]

I agree. Some people seem to be angry about it.

[@LEMxDx]

It was smooth as I concede there, however the length of the ad in the way of what I clicked for was a bit jarring. 30 seconds, fine, at the end of the video, fine, just at the start and so long y'know?

[@LeviathanTamer31]

Nah man, that title goes to Tier Zoo

[@faux_gray]

Not gonna lie as I clicked through spots in the video the entire thing seems to be an advert.

[@josh9395]

It’s because all the sand gets in new tech.

[@GenerationTech]

Ah didn’t about that

[@Pantherblack]

Well, this is a galaxy in which slave-based economies and even manned labor still thrive. Compare to our own history--there was a time people railed against the printing press; hell, there's no good reason solar energy shouldn't be the dominant energy source, or electric vehicles the primary form of transportation... we can't even get the metric system standardized. We ourselves are possibly less than a century from full automation of most major forms of labor, and still won't have the conversation about what we'll do with people that won't have a means of making a living. I think between space capitalism, bureaucracy, and conservative ideologies, it's not crazy the Galaxy Long Ago and Far Away would stagnate.

[@runi5413]

Either that, or Jar-Jar walks in to knock over all the new science-projects. "oh oopsy, me-so clumsy"

[@Nalvor]

More than 1/4 of this video is an ad. Real content begins at 2m18s.

[@WadeWilsonKingofAsgard]

You da MVP. Fuck that shitty ad content

[@alekseicarpenter3359]

Well, channel have to make money somehow. If Generation Tech doesn’t make good money, well, then that means no more Generation Tech videos.

[@dualityomk9854]

American With a Russian Name and thats a bad thing?

[@alonelyperson6031]

Yeah because things cost money. Beside ads aren't that bad.

[@johnschwalb]

If you don't like ads pay for the content

[@scribeslendy595]

The two and a half minute commercial in an 8 minute video was a bit of a turnoff

[@beerenmusli8220]

I am rather be entertained well for 2 minutes than beeing bored for 30 seconds.

[@johnschwalb]

If you don't like ads pay for the content

[@jakemako5135]

But there is no other option here. I got the fucking point 30 seconds into the ad and now im forced to sit here for another minute and a half to get to the actual video without skipping around. If i was looking for a cloud server i would take his recommendation and look at the link. Seriously gen tech? have a little respect for yourself and find some sponsors who won't fuck you

[@skizzlechizzle]

General Coma just skip, simple.

[@skizzlechizzle]

Jake Mako just skip dude. Easy.

[@calebdonaldson8770]

I have never witnessed an advertisement blend into a video so seemlessly as you just did. Directly making the ad relevant to the topic?! Congrats, man.

[@comradetovarish7823]

The jedi suppressed the advancement of technology, Palpatine was the father of kyber crystal energy technology.

[@danaldtrampf6717]

Because they were a zealous, isolationist and allpowerful monastic order using energy weapons in melee combat and basically magic which only a very small part of population was able to sense to safeguard a millenia old republic from another monastic order

[@Zachomara]

That sounds incredibly similar to Augustine Christians for some reason....

[@obijuanquenobi1911]

Danald Trampf there can only be one

[@GeneralKenobi75]

The Jedi didn't suppress anything. But Palpatine pretty much kept all that knowledge to himself for his weapons development.

[@Jiub_SN]

They didn't have that power, if they saw something like the death star they'd work against it but they couldn't censor the republics tech development

[@arielnir2679]

Dude, star wars stagnation has nothing on warhammer 40k stagnation!

[@GenerationTech]

lol yea that's true

[@mill2712]

You mean regression.

[@sitchreapotere1073]

40k kinda has a lot of worse things to worry about than Star Wars, tho.

[@mill2712]

Sitchrea Potere They really do...

[@Gothic7876]

It makes sense in 40k though

[@L0stEngineer]

It could be that star wars reached their technological maturity a long long time ago and things stopped changing. For example in WW1, a new frontline fighter like the sopwith pup was rolled out every few months, now it takes decades to deploy fighters like the F-35 and SU-57. Extrapolate that by a mellenium or two.

[@onlypeaceindeath]

I think it's something like that. We're talking about a civilization that has access to sentient AI, extremely fast galactic and intergalactic travel, and can harness the power of millions of stars inside a structure the size of a small moon or a small planet. In fact, the only thing that is truely advancing in Star Wars is the power generation. From the Death Star to Starkiller Base for example.

[@commmander64]

I have to disagree. Infact in real life data processing and other technologys are evolving faster and faster.

[@therogueadmiral]

Jonathan Schmidt isn't that more of a logistical problem, than a technological one?

[@onlypeaceindeath]

Yes, but even that development is slowing down. It's much harder now to increase the data processing power compared to 10 years ago.

[@kitsychan]

Actually not quite true. New designs of aircraft, are often done much quicker. The F-35 is an exception to the issue, as it didn't just involve a new design for the aircraft, but tons of new and untested items. on the flip side we have the f-35 a,b,c upgrade versions, and alternate versions of all of those for each country. now look at the F-5 freedom fighter, F-5E (and its dozens of versions), F-17 cobra, F-18 Hornet (A B C E/F, growler), F-20, T-38, x-29, heck they are now talking about a stealth version of the Super Hornet. Yes all of those all "fall back" to the F-5... the airframe that just keeps getting resused.

[@MRSNAIL-qb5ty]

That was the smoothest transition to a sponsor I’ve ever seen.

[@marcmarc1967]

"Hey, what are you tryin' to push on us?" - Uncle Owen

[@jacobmeade1045]

When the sponsor transition is smooth af

[@phantomkrieger2744]

I believe the Empire did have cloud computing capabilities via the holonet (pretty much Star Wars internet), but from a military perspective, it’s much easier for a galaxy of potentially trillions of anti-imperial insurgents to hack into secure data files, than it would be actually storm a massive military installation.

[@stianthomassen6693]

Smoothest turn to sponsor ever 😂

[@Midnight-wh2bs]

it was, granted I don't really focus on things like that but I didn't even fully realize he was shifting to advertising the sponsor until like a minute into it.

[@YouTubeViolates1A]

Stian Thomassen That kinda pissed me off. Haha!

[@RifterBitch]

Gotta shill that coin guys, I mean how else could he put out lowQ content!! (20% of the video dedicated to shilling btw)

[@simedinson984]

also the sponsor was a bit irelevant to the video thou bc i dont belive encryptions would be strong enough to keep the futures computer from breaking them

[@gchildjr]

EVER!

[@ancapftw9113]

I think that the only reason they have their current tech is that they learned to duplicate other people's tech. They have a working understanding of what the various parts do, and can make minor improvements through trial and error, but they lack a theoretical understanding of why or how the devices work. This prevents large leaps such as applying the principles to create something new.

[@ghriszlybare2547]

AncapFTW i like this idea. That's essentially how the covenant in halo work. The second a human ai gets hold of a covenant ship they immediately upgrade the weaponry without any physical modifications.

[@ancapftw9113]

I remember one book where Cortana got into a Covenant computer that MC stole. within minutes she'd reprogrammed the computer to penetrate the Covenant enemy's shields. The tech could easily do it with no modifications, they just didn't understand the tech because they had merely copied Forerunner tech. The humans had the theoretical understanding to properly use it, though, despite not being as advanced in that technological area.

[@thefirstprimariscatosicari6870]

AncapFTW I think even modern humans would have a greater understanding of Star Wars tech than the people that live in the Star Wars galaxy themself. The reason is mostly because of how much theoretical science we research. Most species in most Sci-Fi simply research what could be useful for them now, while we research basically everything just for the sake of it.

[@travissmith2848]

Don't let the marketing hype fool you: if it can be accessed on-line it can be hacked. Then again, if it is on physical media it can be stolen. If the entirety of information is known to one person they can be forcibly (or in this case perhaps Forcibly) interrogated. If only portions are known to any one individual but they all know each other interrogation can give up the others. Absolute security is a myth, the question is: is what is being protected worth the expense and risk involved.

[@sancturillore]

well said.

[@JAZZELLIOTT]

Its just not as easy as apple i clowd

[@christiandauz3742]

Realistically, Palpatine would have been hacked by Anonymous when he was in his twenties If Star Wars Droids were more realistic, how screwed would Clones and Force Users be?

[@Iamwolf134]

The NSA are only the most determined attackers out there, coma, government funded attackers at that.

[@hanelyp1]

The point of good encryption is not can it in theory be broken, but how long that takes. With a long enough key that can take MANY years even for the NSA. So the real security is how securely that key is stored.

[@rkbinder]

Personal Fan theory: -The force is a energy field that interacts with billions of sentient living creatures across the galaxy. -One of the most commonly feared things in the world is rapid technological change (see and media screaming about the dangers of tech like Teminator). -It has been shown that the force expresses a will onto the universe, usually thru the force sensitive. Maybe the force is anti-tech because of the net effect of the galaxies fear of misunderstood tech. This means that any new technology (such as remote drones against 'bumbling' droids) is destined to be sidelined. Every ship that has a new computing system gets lost to hyperspace (Katana fleet) every competent droid gets mind-wiped. Heck given enough time it become ingrained culturally.

[@danielwanner281]

@Jakub Bończak Why did you need to make this about Christianity? And for every catholic scientist, there are 10 more that were persecuted by the church...

[@danielwanner281]

@Jakub Bończak How is environmentalism anti-science?

[@Michael-fd1gx]

It does advance, when the makers of the Star Wars media imagine a more advanced technology.

[@jamesmcgrath1952]

Nothing is more secure as data that is not only encrypted but physically isolated from the outside (I'll keep my physical data storage). No cloud storage is truly isolated, and no matter how many servers it's broken up on it's still potentially accessible. It's a lot like secrets. A secret is only a secret if only two people know and one of them is dead.

[@UnitAlir]

You sound like you'd be interested in compartmentalization. Heard of Qubes OS?

[@jamesmcgrath1952]

I do now, I'm going to try it. Thanks.

[@UnitAlir]

No worries! I hope you enjoy it! It's justifiably called a reasonably secure OS. Standard desktop OS' are frankly pathetic when it comes to security. Xen is the only way forward.

[@tiagodecastro2929]

Well, you know what they say: "Three people can keep a secret if two of them are dead." I wish I recalled where it was that I originally heard the phrase...

[@dragoonsunite]

It may not 'seem' possible to secure data, but the way block chains work, and tying cloud storage to cryptocurrency might in fact make it very possible to have secure data 'accessible' but unreadable unless you are the owner. Anyway, I remember grasping it briefly when I got a few different laymen explanations of how it worked, and then I brain dumped it, hence me merely referencing you to look at it... It's enough for me to feel comfortable that it's at least 'possible' to create cloud security that is roughly equally secure as physically isolated security.

[@darthsidious9663]

youve all heard of ben swolo now get ready for these two qui gone gym and emperor palprotein

[@emperortethysusdacertified8175]

Abakin Swolewalker is better then either of them

[@MikhaelAhava]

okay.

[@supremeleadersmeagol6345]

Battle Roid

[@TheObliviousStormtrooper]

Good job stealing memes

[@yungacidtav2278]

obi one more rep

[@garrettweaver3824]

In some areas Star Wars is behind us technologically. The most common computer port in the Star Wars universe seems to be that mechanical serial interface R2-D2 uses. Think of a USB port, now think of it being 20 times larger and a million times slower. That’s what Star Wars has. Real life computers NEVER had anything like it. The closest thing would be punch cards.

[@dman644]

thats just cause he was made in the 70s , things like usb ports and iphones were were barely thinkable to ppl at that time

[@slimetank394]

Somehow there's no planet in star wars that's on a middle level and closer to our world. It's either "space traveling so normal everyone take it for granted" level or "me use wood stick stabby stabby stuff" Level of technology

[@nil981]

It could be that their technology has effectively reached its absolute pinnacle in advancement. Hell with star wars technology, there should be megastructures like Dyson spheres and artificial worlds.

[@funnelvortex7722]

I figured the lack of megastructures was because with things like hypermatter reactors Dyson spheres are pretty much meaningless.

[@jedihunter176]

Shitty product placement aside -- it's important that you had to emphasize the security. That's a big reason Star Wars has compartmentalized data. In a galaxy far, far away with highly advanced technology, perhaps they TOO thought clouds were gonna be a great big thing, until wireless slicing became extremely adept. Just like in Battlestar Galactica, the answer was to disconnect wireless networking. That's why droids are everywhere instead of just having wireless computers do everything. AND it's why they have to manually interface with a structure's 'main computer' instead of just connecting remotely. And why people like Lobot are regarded so strangely.

[@Xo-3130]

Well during the new Sith wars the holonet was destroyed once...

[@kaiserhundkek2531]

Emp United wait what!

[@TheRevanchrist]

If I had to guess, I say the stagnation comes from a lack of need. Technology exist to make life better but if life seems good and does not need improvement then their would be no drive rapid advancement. Also there could be the case that a new technological method is still waiting to be discovered which could increase the technological growth exponentially compared to previous eras much like the industrial revolution did for our world as since then we advanced more in a century then any period before that.

[@sitchreapotere1073]

That's not how economics works. Businesses start because of two reasons: 1. They built a better mouse trap, or 2. They developed a new product. If life is good then people would be buying up the improved products that make life even easier. It builds and builds, small businesses becoming large companies, with other small companies rising to take their place or join them. Peace allows for technology to expand, peace does not stagnate progress, even if war accelerates it.

[@avidian888]

Nathan .Z Militaries will always have needs for new technologies, so they can get the upper hand. Star Wars won't evolve it's technologies, because the series has become fan service franchises and they don't care about a realistic and logical integrity of the SW universe. As long as people get to see familiar stuff and buy tickets for the movies, they won't change anything about it.

[@daneosborn3476]

Sitchrea Potere economics has little to do with it. War has more to do with it or the threat of war. Military advancements bleed over to civilian.

[@christiandauz3742]

Technology always goes forward most of the time Sometimes it develops very slowly and unevenly, but Star Wars is very unrealistic when it comes to that Force Users should have been obsolete A LONG, LONG, VERY FUCKING LONG TIME AGO!!!

[@ukmediawarrior]

I have been harping on about this for years, lol, how the tech never updates despite thousands of years passing by, it just makes no logical sense. Of course the true reason is that Lucasfilm wants to keep the tech familiar so the fans can stay attached to it from what they know and love ;)

[@大銀河帝国の皇帝]

All the ancient stuff is legends. In canon only about 50 years passed.

[@KaiserMattTygore927]

And yet the canon stuff still has rebel and empire tech even though the prequel era had more uniqueness in its "primitive" designs.

[@alexanerose4820]

When you reach the end of your leaps and bounds then it wouldn't be much to assume that all that's left for you to do is quality of life improvements. Take the gun for example. It hasn't rally changed much over the last hundred years or so after the cartridge with the in-built percussion cap. Now compare that to the i-phone that changed drastically in a 10 year period. But even then it's gotten stale. Technology has its limits

[@darwinxavier3516]

The next step from iphones might be 3D holographic projections like we see overused in modern scifi like Minority Report and Ironman.

[@TechnoMinarchist]

UK Media Warrior I actually have a good idea about this. The star wars civilisations discovered hyperdrive on Corellia before they invented the microchip. As a result, they spent the next 30,000 years advancing analogue technology to its limits. They never had to expand to other ideas because hyperdrive gave them access to massive amounts of resources. To be fair, they have ANALOGUE AI robots. That is pretty damn impressive.

[@Manfromthenorth0551]

Perhaps there's no NEED for any real advancement. It's like in high fantasy worlds where magic is so common and so useful that there is no need for scientific advancements. Why make guns when you can hurdle balls of flaming death, and fire enchanted arrows? Why make medical advancements when magic can heal almost any wound? Why make cars when you have teleportation? And so on, and so on. Perhaps it's the same in the Star Wars universe, where technology is at a point that there are no wants or needs for advancement.

[@RaddSpencer]

"It's not sci-fi, it's fantasy in space" has already been covered but I want to expand on that. When KotOR was being developed, the creators didn't want to rock the boat. They wanted everything that made Star Wars what it is to appear in the game. Triangular shaped ships, stormtroopers, lightsabers, etc. They really wanted to tell a story with the same exact setting we knew and loved from the movies, rather than a riskier approach of showing how very different a Galaxy Far Far Away might be if you went a thousand years before Duke Dirtfarmer blew up Laser Moon. Sure, it would be interesting to see some progression of technology, but making it more familiar is a far safer route when we're talking game sales. And I'm not trying to single out KotOR, great game and great game developer, but the entire Expanded Universe was like that and I doubt we'll see too much of a departure now that Disney is calling the shots, for the exact same reason. And it works, more or less, because it's "fantasy in space". Throw in some lightsaber duels and recycled one liners in there and people won't care if the technology seems to stay the same over thousands of years, and is even behind our modern technology in some ways. No one questions why technology in Middle Earth stays the same. It's the same thing.

[@williamalvarez9563]

It is funny, I read this and agree, the I remember the last trilogy...the I think they shoulf have taken that risk, gone with a reboot and show a remarkably different technology reimagine the whole freaking star wars universe...but again, I only feel that way when I remember the last trilogy...

[@garrethparsons9211]

The lightsabers advanced a lot. When they first were invented they needed a back pack to operate but later on they could operate on their own

[@wilhufftarkin8543]

I think the Old Republic Era's technology looks a bit more primitive than technology by the time of the movies. It looks bulkier, larger (except the ships ;) ) and not as agile as later Star Wars technology. Also, the tech before KotOR, during KotOR and during TOR has a distinct look. The most obvious difference is between the before/early Republic period and the KotOR/TOR era, but even the time shortly before KotOR looked different (Tales of the Jedi). Also, I believe that technology reached a peak before the New Sith Wars (2000 BBY) and then came to a low during the second half of the war. In the Jedi vs. Sith comic which depicts the Seventh Battle of Ruusan in 1000 BBY, some of the soldiers fight with medieval weapons because they have no supplies. Also, during that time, the Republic was reduced to the Core Worlds and some trade routes and most of the holonet broke down. This is how I explain the stagnation of technology. I believe that the New Sith Wars made the technology level severely decline, so that it had to be brought back to the same level during the next 500 or so years. This is why by the time of the movies, technology isn't that much more advanced than 4000 years earlier.

[@chrissonofpear3657]

For me, it still looked TOO advanced and similar though.

[@nickvinsable3798]

Though not easily noticed at first, one of the BIGGEST Innovations would be the Hyperdrive. Old School, EXTREMELY Old School Hyperdrives could only travel so far & fast AND there where also Size Restrictions. In the pre-trilogy, Star Fighters, Jedi Star Fighters to be precise, required Hyper Rings to propel them through hyperspace. The Rebel Star Fighters had an advantage over MOST Models of TIEs because of their more compact Hyperdrives. Now the First Order has Hyperdrive capable TIEs. Hence, its not exactly stagnation, just improvements & Innovations. However, if something is not broken, there is no need to fix it.

[@uni4rm]

Not sure where you would find that to be true. Hyperdrive has always been available to fighters in the movies, just not all of them have it. Even in the books when the main protagonists came across an "old" pre-movie ships it would have a hyperdrive and the issue wasn't the drive, it was the old, slow "navcomputers" that took hours to make a calculation. Distance of jumps was a matter of fuel storage.

[@nickvinsable3798]

I still stand by what I type, 1SLUGGO1, especially when there are a series of missions in “Star Wars: TIE Fighter”, I have the collectors edition by the way, where there are improvements made that makes them smaller & more functional.

[@Marukuzuu]

Is it me or does technology go down hill after the clone wars look at the torpedoes the vulture droid during the episode 3 space battle it can trace a spaceship then look at luke's torpedoes during the Death Star I trench run then how did the first order revive 60 years of lost tech

[@alexanerose4820]

+Sean Maglaque Other than real reasons (like SW was made in the 70's while Clone wars was 2000's) the technology is actually more advanced and looks more robust. Granted I like Clone Trooper armor more than Stormtrooper ones even if I'ma CIS fanboy but meh

[@Marukuzuu]

Alexane Rose look at the rebulic and CIS' death star which took 30 years to build then took at starkiller it took 30 years but it can do more damage what happen to the development during the clone wars

[@superdougie4637]

Sean Maglaque I suppose after the clone wars a lot of the old tech got destroyed, plus imperial tech is more advanced than the CIS and the clones than you think, just look at the clone walkers and the imperial walkers. Imperial and First Order vehicles are far more powerful, have more armour plating and have better shields.

[@Marukuzuu]

Super Dougie but look at the super wepons they never change both can be destroyed by a....Skywalker or a Damaeron

[@chrissonofpear3657]

And the First Order now seems to totally LACK Interdictor field technology...

[@ereder1476]

_star wars technology have not evolved for a few millenia_ - w40k : *hold my beer*

[@z_is_for_zombie7423]

Well, I always headcanoned it that the regular galaxy spanning conflicts (which only seem to escalate each time) is basically destroying so many resources and infrastructure that innovation has ground to a near halt.

[@L0stEngineer]

So, you're saying internxt are the droids we were looking for?

[@johnbash-on-ger]

It's the Cloud Drive we're looking for, although not deserve, but the drives we want.

[@noelrose7419]

I agree with the idea of the peak, but I've also always thought that it's a number game when it comes to advancement. Like if you take a sith cruiser, and pit it against a star destroyer, the star destroyer is gonna win. Hyperdrive is the constant, but everything else is getting a bit bigger and more powerful. One side makes more powerful shields, the other makes more powerful laser cannons and so on.The tech itself is the same, it's just advanced in effectiveness.

[@williamnorton9547]

Noel Rose Somebody builds a better mousetrap, somebody else builds a better mouse.

[@bmm9714]

Was this about Star Wars or a commercial for X Cloud?

[@johnschwalb]

If you don't like ads pay for the content

[@MNGN101]

Because some of the designers/writers for the Old Republic era were uninspired hacks. That's the reality of it. They just wanted to make their own version of Star Wars while piggy-backing off of Frank MacQuarrie and Doug Chiang's hard work and sometimes they would throw in some half-assed lore explanation to justify it.

[@ovs8691]

This would be an excellent thing to expand on through a movie that takes place in the old republic. Rather than everyone having blasters, have the republic still use ballistic weapons, have hyperspace rather open up a wormhole or waystations similar to Mass Effect. Wheeled Vehicles similar to the Juggernaut in the Clone Wars. Lightsabers still requiring battery packs and the Jedi using actual shields. The possibilities and creativity would be endless

[@RocketHarry865]

or at least the Hyperspace is slow and requires fixed hyperspace beacons which has only within the last few centuries of the Old Republic movie had supplanted Hyperspace cannons

[@royalyoshi8563]

What I'm thinking is that the Old Republic had a sort of Geneva Convention against ballistic weapons. I watched it somewhere that lasers, although more lethal and advanced, are a lot less *physically* damaging. It's a different kind of lethality, like the minnie balls during the Civil War era compared to modern ballistics.

[@ovs8691]

Royal Yoshi Yes that true atleast in Star Wars. Allvthey do is create a slightly deep entry wound and burn you a bit, a bullet will mess your day up. Which makes it even more savage that the Mandolorians should be using them to pissoff the Republic, who're using musket-like blaster rifles.

[@kozhedub]

If they could use wormholes, it would never make sense to revert to much slower hyperspace travel..

[@kozhedub]

And at least in legends, there are hyperspace lanes which were painstakingly discovered over thousands of years. While the rakatan empire the first true galactic empire, they had far fewer actual systems under their control than they do in the modern era. This can be attributed to the amount of possible lanes they could take between different systems, which grew to a massive amount later in the history

[@MrJay_White]

"the republic never truly disappeared" there you go. you cant have real advancement under feudal lords.

[@MrBomasBalloons]

It's all relative. When some species live 500-1000 years, 3000-4000 years is actually not that long.

[@MagorWilli]

And imagine how short your life would be, if half of it you spent in a god damn ship traveling from one point in a galaxy to another. :-D that's btw what i really like on TCW - three yeras long war, which means Anakin, Obi, Dooku and etc spent at least a year in some kind of ship, considering on how many places they fight. :-D

[@istvansipos9940]

even if some species live long, it is the same amount of time. regardless of the average lifespan, they have the same amount and kind of conflicts, so they are equally motivated as standard humans to produce better tech. if anything, a longer lifespan would only boost this development because longer living geniuses and super talented engineers can do their business for centuries

[@ManiacalMill]

@@MagorWilli It only takes days or weeks at most to travel from one end of the galaxy to the other in Star Wars. Obi-Wan was on Utapau (Outer Rim), returned to Coruscant (Core*), and then reached Mustafar (Outer Rim, only a few sectors from Utapau) during the course of day, two at most.

[@luongmaihunggia]

What? Lifespan has nothing to do with technology, your comment makes no sense.

[@TheThingInMySink]

Yeah but have you noticed that troughout history, the older we get the faster our technology advances? I'm not saying at some point there won't be an era of stagnation, but still.

[@t.r.2283]

simple example. We are in the year 2018. How did the pencil technology changed?

[@johnschwalb]

They are now chickie

[@thomasmuir5653]

You don’t need to change perfection?

[@gplgs4640]

*Apple Pencil*

[@Dziki_z_Lasu]

Wooden pencil in a modern form with a rubber would be the latest invention in the star wars universe. It has only 150 years, not to mention all fancy automatic models! There are probably spaceships older then a wooden classic pencile still in service there. In galaxy far away probably lead rods are still in use...

[@ScooterinAB]

Quite a lot. It went from a bar of soft minerals to a manufactured wooden pencil to a mechanical pencil with machine-precise graphite.

[@ericmcquisten]

BEST LINE OF THE VIDEO @ 2:18 ---> "Now back to the Star Wars galaxy, where like Keanu Reeves, technology will never change."

[@GrzegorzDurda]

The MOST secure way to store and transfer data in secret WOULD be a secret physical device.

[@jamesricker3997]

Who is espionage droids like R2-D2 on the loose, that is the best option

[@WERTYUIO821]

Simple: Because some Rebels/Seperatist/Sith/Jedi/Teddy Bears in every size always destroy the research areas!!! How many times have we heard the phrase "If the Empire get this knowledge the Rebel Alliance is dead"

[@beerenmusli8220]

But they could simply copy the data.

[@WERTYUIO821]

Beerenmüsli Then they would destroy every copy before the Empire learn about it.

[@beerenmusli8220]

No. They could store a copy of it pre-installed on every storage medium the produce.

[@WERTYUIO821]

Beerenmüsli Plot does not allow this to happen...

[@keonisan]

The tech does advance slowly, if you remember during the second galactic civil war Admiral Daala had ships equipped with Metal crystal phase shifters or MCPS for short. These weapons bypassed shields and could render a ship into a shredded can. But in the following series Daala's ships didn't have these weapons I think because of the unfair advantage she would have against Jagged Fel. It was stated they were too costly to maintain, but somehow she was able to have them ever since the time she escaped the maw with them and cost didn't seem to be a problem. They were conveniently erased by the next author.

[@weir-t7y]

keonisan sounds like regression to me

[@SinerAthin]

I believe an in-universe sort of tech pinnacle/ceiling is the only way to explain why things haven't developed further, because there's too many drivers for technological development otherwise; both practical and ideological. That said, the observable tech pinnacle of Star Wars is relatively primitive compared to what we are likely to achieve at some point in the real world; for those familiar with the Kardashev scale.

[@ls200076]

SinerAthin type 5 civilisations are the best. Who needs magic when technology stomps magic

[@RocketHarry865]

at type 5 it is likely at that point technology effectivelly becomes magic

[@HereComesPopoBawa]

Technology and magic are the same thing.

[@vonfaustien3957]

yep a single GSV from the culture books would outgun the combined power of every star wars ship canon and legends including super weapons with no issue. a fully developed high level civilisation is scary.

[@YouTubeViolates1A]

I like how the Rakatan Empire was Star Wars' Roman Empire.

[@fduniho]

The Death Star was new technology in the original film, and the planet-sized successor to the Death Star in The Force Awakens was also new technology. Also, droids no longer need legs, as BB-8 gets along well without any.

[@toddfox1559]

Slow smoked Gungan is good stuff also

[@GenerationTech]

Todd Fox I feel like our biologies aren’t compatible lol

[@toddfox1559]

Generation Tech LOL

[@ancapftw9113]

Correllian Whiskey marinaded Gungan jerky.

[@userequaltoNull]

Nah, char-broiled.

[@aBerlin1945]

Gungan on a stick

[@bobafett8079]

Something that I want from Star Wars to be real would be the Shields

[@userequaltoNull]

Boba Fett HYPERDRIVES FDNVFBDHVGNXJFNCGNVH!!!! idiot

[@ls200076]

Boba Fett and galactic slaves

[@blamblam7578]

Someone name ten changes in Star Wars technology that happened between the old republic and to the battle of Yavin.

[@Xo-3130]

Hyperspace computers don't need beacons that are set up anymore, cloning has advanced to the point that actually cloning a stable force user is possible, the Empire managed to create a super weapon which could harvest a sun's energy, travel outside the galaxy to the nearby satellites is possible if a bit risky, the Suncrusher... simply all of it, Galaxy Gun can fire through hyperspace, actually plenty of the Empire's super weapons were being developed before the battle so just look at the weird scientific stuff they made

[@michaelhirschi3827]

I guess if you think about it, our tech has grown exponentially in the areas of medicine, and communications, but not in things that take more power (transportation, space/underwater exploration etc..). Until we learn to master Fusion we are pretty stuck on most of our larger Tech, so maybe the peak theary is at least plausible.

[@kurtisokc]

My own take on it is that technology in the Star Wars universe has advanced to the point where is starting to bump up against the limitations of what is physically possible. So technological advancement hasn’t stopped, but it has become much slower and more incremental, at least compared to what we are used to seeing within our own lifetimes.

[@darthvader4594]

Well at least first order tech is impressive...

[@darwinxavier3516]

If you mean hyperspace seeker cluster super death rays that function more like anime magitech than scifi tech, then yes.

[@eclipseslayer98]

Except that they could have prevented their flagship from getting blasted by a space feminazi by installing a few interdictor machines on board... Like FFS, it's an exceedingly common thing to do, and yet they didn't do it. Fuckin' weak-ass scrubs.

[@casbot71]

Except they still haven't worked out a idiot tester for crew evaluations

[@bodhi9937]

Darth Vader nice joke lmao

[@undyingUmbrage]

Ugly ass cluttered armour and red windows

[@Clarence_Oddbody]

The lack teleportation and matter replication even though they have hyperdrives and planet-sized planet killer weapons has always been baffling, but it’s likely mainly about Lucas not wanting to be accused of copying Star Trek any more than he has been.

[@Funkography]

I like that the constant fighting in the Star Wars galaxy stagnates tech like the 40k universe. Close range ship to ship combat, sentient starfighter pilots and short range dogfighting, awesome close quarters fighting. Love it.

[@thefirstprimariscatosicari6870]

Frothy Walrus But 40k ships fight at huge ranges, even over the light second (something basically impossible to do).

[@christiandauz3742]

Star Wars does not do constant fighting We Real Life Humans fight more than Star Wars! (By a large margin)

[@LyneaSilver]

Christian Dauz Right, but we aren't shown the passage of time. So it doesn't appear that way.

[@christiandauz3742]

Star Wars has huge gaps in centuries between 'wars' (most of which kill just a few thousand at a time) -A few thousand years between the First Jedi Schism and the Second One (It is more apparent in the Disney Timeline which has very few battles recorded) The Industrial Revolution was not a by-product of war A lot of technology is not develop during wartime but when it is peacetime The Nazis actually slowed down a lot of technological innovation for ideological purposes (And they are warmongers) Einstein and other scientist were already studying nuclear tech before WW2 started We would have more technological progression and a better economy if WW2 never happened (America's prosperity in the 50s and 60s was due to being the only major country not devastated by WW2) War spreads technology around much faster but does slow it down in the long run

[@trenchcoatsamurai6757]

*To be a man in such times is to be one amongst untold billions.* *It is to love in the cruelest and most bloody regime imaginable.* *Forget the power of technology and science, for so much has been forgotten, never to be re-learned. Forget the promise of progress and understanding. For in the grim, dark future there is only war.* *There is no peace amongst the stars, only an eternity of carnage and slaughter, and the laughter of thirsting gods.*

[@andrewc3227]

I'm rewatching this 2 years later and still video is just what I need for quarantine

[@argentin2306]

I can agree it's a bit absurd that the war tactics haven't changed in so much time, plus their tactics are pretty similar to the ones used in our world around the 19th century

[@MrDarthbrony]

Because fanboys get mad when it does

[@beerenmusli8220]

HA!^^ That is by faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaar the best explaination^^

[@qwertymanova2652]

Exactly

[@williamjameslehy1341]

When has that happened?

[@UgandanSonic]

Jacob Hoss new trilogy haters which are just fanatical clone fanboys

[@williamjameslehy1341]

Not liking Disney movies that are absolutely terrible does not make one a 'fanboy'. That's not how words work.

[@buffydaslaya]

Star Wars isn't science fiction, it's science fantasy.

[@thesavior9363]

Who cares?

[@StaticYonder]

It's not real, it is not fact, thus it is fiction

[@keegangates5073]

StaticYonder Star Wars is a space opera with minor science fiction elements. Drama takes the helm, while logic and sci-Fi are underfed child-slaves who shovel coal into the ship’s reactor.

[@депрессивныйстудент]

Fantasy is fiction?

[@mewtwo.150]

Lol, people fighting for the real reason. They all give their arguments as if they are scientifics and with Earth's history examples 😂. But the answer is really simple... Because George Lucas created it in the 70s, so the prequels cant just make better technology because would be stupid, and thanks that Disney is just doing remakes and playing safe with nostalgia, is why we wont see any advance. Even the Tie Fighters on the original Star Wars George Lucas movies, evolved movie by movie (IV standard > V bomber > VI advance) meanwhile Disney is just using the damn basic tie-fighter but with inverted colors, wow...

[@ImortalPvP]

“Bucket head spooks” I nearly choked

[@robbgraves1586]

"Moonsize peace keeping Stations" lol I almost spit my drink

[@robotbjorn4952]

2:18 to skip ad

[@crashlove768]

Also remember the umbarans from tcw, they looked pretty advanced and are canon

[@GenerationTech]

Yea and they were pretty isolated until the clone wars

[@trenchcoatsamurai6757]

I think that there an impossibly advanced society. their world, government, and isolationist ways would NOT produce superior technology.

[@ondrejrolnik1631]

Remember, "isolationist" in terms of planets doesn't mean much. We've done fine enough, being isolated :D

[@paceyombex]

Maybe, they have reached their peak of technology

[@galistoianov]

peak of technology is impossible just both sides are stuck in war that seems forever wasting. The galaxy in star wars is not fully explored so maybe the key to new technology is in the unexplored zones but before they explore the zones safely without risking the war effort the war should be finished

[@galistoianov]

@Jotaro97 technology can't be maxed out there is always something to be improved it only can be in a stagnation and as I've said there's unexplored part of the universe where may be new resources needed for better technology

[@galistoianov]

@Jotaro97 I mean they don't have A.I. systems for their weapones (not any I know of) and we are already developing those which gives us some advance plus the physical information storage is another thing that is a great debuff as it can get stolen or destroyed

[@galistoianov]

@Jotaro97 well if they outlawed such a system they put more people to the risk but even remote control isn't present well as far is seen in the movies and etc it doesn't seem to be either something equivalent to our internet so yeah I'd ignore that argument too it was stupid

[@komitadjie]

Honestly, I've always viewed it as being largely that technology was never really built up from first principles. In the entire universe that we've seen, they have never actually *developed* serious science of their own. They basically just iterate on the technology they've recovered. They haven't HAD to develop a pure science of their own, they've just had to improve upon recovered tech. Alternately, it's possible that they exist in a younger galaxy, where there have been fewer stellar cycles, and there is simply a shortage of heavy elements that could greatly inhibit higher-energy sciences.

[@nellyishtari]

Knowing that the whole serie from episode 1 to 8 goes on a range of 70 years.... I'd guess at the level they reached, 70 years isn't enough to show a massive change in tech. Let's see a interstellar cruiser.... which I'd compare to our flagships aircraft carriers.... some are 40 years old and still operational (even if not at the edge of tech).

[@parmesanstark2875]

Isn’t the old republic no longer canon. Demilitarization happened after the battle of Jakku so that is part of it.

[@uni4rm]

Most world powers demilitarized to a significant degree after ww1 and ww2 yet the differences between the tech available and being used by those armies is massive, and that isn't an exaggeration. In 30-odd years we went from Bi-Planes going about 80mph and mass infantry and calvary attacks to near supersonic aircraft capable of delivering nuclear weapons and modern integrated combat strategies.

[@nasateen13]

1SLUGGO1 Crazy ain't it?! Did you know that Buzz Aldrin was only 18 at the time Orville Wright's death?

[@rprince418]

The canon thing is getting really shaky now. Half the fan base is against it, half for. And the last 2 Star Wars movies were divisive for fans as well, with Solo earning less at the box office. Battlefront 2 sucks, because it has all that micro transaction crap. Gone are the days of quality story telling and single player campaigns. Point is, I predict in a couple years they will slowly transition most of Legends to being canon again.

[@nasovic]

So Disney can make more money out of nostalgia. Mystery solved!

[@ScooterinAB]

Except everything from the Old Republic comes from pre-Disney Star Wars... as in 90's pre-Disney Star Wars.

[@josephsmith8087]

"It looks like in new Canon they are going to get rid of the technological stagnation by making the ancient Jedi more primitive" *star wars rebels has a sith temple on malacore which is said to be around the same time line as the Jedi - mandolorian war* (sorry if I misspelled things, I haven't seen the way these were spelled in years.)

[@Zeroground300]

But if you do any close reading of the cannon or EU you know this simply isn't true. Even if you take the example of the Hammerhead cruiser in the thumbnail. In 4,000bby it was the mainstay cruiser of the line. However, by 0bby it was only good as a corvette being used by a radical faction essentially buying junk ships due to more advanced ships overpowering it at its original role. Even if you compare the Venator SD to the Imperial SD, the latter being fitted with far more numerous and advanced armament than the former. This shows advancement in construction, starship power plants and weapons technology creating obsolescence in a space of 50 years which is a similar timeframe to our naval advancement.

[@matthewallen978]

another good recipe is steamed quaren paired with deep-fried ewok, which also goes well with poached porg, and smoked gungan

[@StarSage66]

Bad world building?

[@beerenmusli8220]

Well, Not bad, but unrealistic world building.

[@shardd4297]

Beerenmüsli so... Bad world building?

[@beerenmusli8220]

No, not bad. The Star Wars Universe is extremly entertaining. I would not consider that "bad" world building.

[@Emperorhirohito19272]

Beerenmüsli if it’s unrealistic and senseless it’s bad world building, doesn’t mean it can’t be entertaining

[@the1m3m3wondermemes2]

You do know storage clouds aren’t magic the data is stored in a off site in either multiple or one site of hard drives so we also have a “large usb stick” holding our info and they also had encrypted data too it’s just the rebels had the description software to read the disk it’s just we have our “clouds” set up to receive data and store it in a designated partitions for users I’m 13 and specialize in hard ware but even I still know the basics of storage of data in clouds

[@johnschwalb]

While that's not completely inaccurate, the service he is peddling is a block chain of sorts decentralizing the data to its users with algorithms to replatrce missing data from a system going off line.

[@Liur.]

But they do advance... In Rogue One when Cassian and Jyn are flipping though the data vault directory Jyn finds "hyper space tracking", surprise surprise we see that in VIII, and I don't know about you but that seems pretty advanced, especially considering Leia and Finns reactions claiming how it's impossible and yet the first order has done it.

[@poopboy3998]

Liur that’s not direct tracking it’s a system that work by going over all the possible destinations that the ship it wants to track and calculates the most likely place the ship will jump out of hyperspace, although it is very accurate (from what we’ve seen of it) of not jumping to the wrong systems and letting the “bad guys” get away

[@Liur.]

Finn and Rose repeatedly refers to it as "active tracking".

[@thefirstprimariscatosicari6870]

Liur But even combining all technological advancements they come no where close how fast we advance. In the 70 years after WW2 we had more changes than they did in millennias.

[@Liur.]

You're going to compare penicillin with tracking an object faster than the speed of light? Okay lol.

[@AaronDarkus]

Liur Altought tracking ships in the hyperspace was first seen in Episode VIII, the concept of interacting with the hyperspace more than just entering to in was seen in Rebels (or at least in this new canon), with the inclusion of the Interdictor-class Star Destroyer, who is capable of pull ships out of hyperspace thanks to its gravity well proyectors.

[@transformersrevenge9]

''War has...umm...not really changed in the last few thousand years, now that I think about it...'' - Solid Snake in the Star Wars universe.

[@AndDreakassj4]

I literally gave this video a like because I was about 30 secs into the sponsor until I realized it was a sponsor haha great job buddy

[@franohmsford7548]

The "Cloud" ain't secure! Don't you recall all those naughty photos that came out a year or so ago after it got hacked! Like Star Wars and other Sci-Fi we may end up going back to physical drives in the future for the exact reason that if it's not connected to the Internet it can't be as easily hacked!

[@clayxros576]

The thing everyone forgets. Hackers are stupid good at what they do, and a good number of them only do it as a hobby. They happen to be savants from what I can tell though. Even big militaries use closed communications and such rather than the internet because even one small flaw and their entire system is completely comprimised.

[@thefirstprimariscatosicari6870]

Fran Ohmsford We will never revert to complete physical drive. But we can already use alternate sistems to avoid the problems of the Internet. Such as end-to-end encryption, single photon blocks and closed circuits with a single entry.

[@christiandauz3742]

But those won't be secure forever

[@jameswilson9348]

There are a lot of talented Slicers in the Star Wars Galaxy. They seem to be everywhere no matter the time period. Physical storage may be the best way to keep it secure in their universe.

[@josugambee3701]

I think that everyone is forgetting that it's inherently unsafe to trust a third party to your private data. Everyone seems to be okay with it for some reason.

[@captaincrooked9051]

Here is one factor I would say contributes to the cause of stagnation, and that there is a limit to how much a person can learn based on the limitation of life span. The most modern of technologies would require a lifetime of studying how all the principles work. Most people obviously cannot do this, and thus they learn what is needed to use tech, and ignore the micro processes that are considered universal. The more advance technology gets, the more a modern scientist is going to have to ignore in order to specialize their knowledge to a particular subject. And the more that that occurs, the more fragile the "knowledge framework" becomes, Scientist "A" may dedicate their knowledge to a single part of an engine, and without Scientist B and C, the engine cannot be built. If Scientist "A" wanted to be able to build all the parts of the engine, they would need to have a longer life span in order to learn everything Scientist B and C knows. And if Scientist B dies, they will need to find a replacement who was knowledgeable on that subject, but now that science is so advanced with millions of different dedicated sectors of study, it will be difficult to find a replacement. And this is the grand limiter. Most technicians in SW probably don't know any of the sciences, they just know Componant A does this action, Component B does this action. They can assemble into different configurations and such, but cannot create anything drastically new without having a multitude of scientists who can innovate a new design.

[@jamesfernandez5121]

Good point. Makes me think that there is a point at which the rate we forget as a race surpasses the rate at which we can learn and apply. And the larger a population, the bigger that ratio can become as subject areas of learning become too diverse.

[@jackrabbitgee6641]

While I do agree with the premise, we also know that SW universe has extremely advanced AI. I feel like we would just become entirely reliant on AI for maintaining and even creating new technology while we just use said tech, thereby removing the lifespan dilemma.

[@casbot71]

But in Star Wars there are species with far longer than human lifespans "Research scientists I will become".

[@katiekatie6289]

Jackrabbit Gee Droids don't play a big role in innovation in the Star Wars universe, they're just used basically as slaves to do menial tasks.

[@ZachThePwn]

lol looking for star wars got an ad instead

[@Beuwen_The_Dragon]

I think you hit the nail on the head at the end. The Star Wars universe has hit a bit of a tech plateau, where really new advanced technologies are just not possible or simply have not been discovered. Same reason why most firearms have not really advanced in the last seventy years. What we have, works. What they have in the Star Wars universe, just works. So far the only 'innovations" they seem capable of doing is making things bigger, or faster.

[@GeorgeNoX]

if anything, i would say that The Old Republic technology is way more advanced which is several thousand years prior to the movie era. One explanation to this i can think of is that in the old republic there was still some Rakatan tech around and people of that time reverse engineered some of it to suit their needs. Over time Rakatan tech got lost to time and so without an influx of more advanced technologies, then current technology started stagnating because people could not figure out a way to make something better

[@tombraver6449]

Star Wars could also be in a similar scenario as the Fallout series. Star Wars doesn't really show holograms with full color, and a lot of stuff is really bulky. Even little com mic's are about the size of a cigar, and lots of cultures still utilize junk parts to build their ships and technologies. (And since the galactic republic/empire control most of the galaxy, needless to say the economy plays a huge role too.) Anyways back to comparing with Fallout. In Fallout, technology does advance like laser and plasma weapons, power suits, ect. But everything looks super retro. TV/computer monitors are huge. Cars are huge and still have that 50's style look. And more importantly, the culture on that Earth never really got "out" of the Cold War. Not to mention a fuel crisis. (And we all know what happened after that :p) So perhaps Star Wars has a similar fate. Someone did discover how to make slim and beautiful HD computers/TV's but the tech was lost. The ships too. They are all usually huge bulky, boxy, ect. No real curves besides the ships from Naboo. The technology existed at one point but was lost. Hell, there are Roman ruins near sea where the concrete is ridiculously hard. And scientists can't figure out why or how it is produced. Because that information is lost. War and conflict do shit like that. And as for droids, maybe someone did make some more "human/alive" and it turned out to be a horrible decision resulting in a Terminator style conflict. And because of this, destroyed that tech/and or made "rules" never to make something like that again. And people today don't realize how important books really are. Sure computers are great but what if...WHAT IF....The entire internet shut down, or some sort of EMP catastrophe happened where all of our tech shortened out. Wed be fucked. Because all of our information was on data and not on something physical. Sometimes things like books, tablets, and old methods never die. Because they JUST work. Why fix something that's not broken? I don't know. I hope most of that makes sense.

[@Edvinno99]

You know whats taste better? Porgs.

[@Merchant_Admiral]

Now this is a person I can agree with! If only the rest of the internet was like this...

[@Edvinno99]

There are a lot of simple people on youtube, just find them.

[@lithios8478]

you don't fix whats not broken

[@christiandauz3742]

So the droids aren't 'broken' or 'stupid'?

[@duniecool]

Econ and CS degree from UVA here. One word like briefly mentioned. Marginal product of technology must be diminishing at their rate. For us we think that technology is growing exponentially and has a positive marginal product. However we don't know whether or not that will slow down like we do know it does with labor, capital, and total factor productivity. In a world like star wars it makes sense that they have reached such a level of technology that technology advancement growth has slowed down and they have reached a near steady state where the benefit of developing new tech is so small that it is not worth the cost.

[@radioflyer68911]

If there are shields involved and based on the fact that energy in a blast of plasma or even a phaser dissipates over great distances, you have to get pretty close to your target to get the full effect of your weapons blasts. The closer you get, the more energy gets to the target. And as far as hiding your vital systems go, it doesn't matter where you put your command center, vital systems deep inside the hull or high on a tower, if your shields ever go down the phaser/plasma blast will cut through your hull like a hot knife through butter.

[@jaskamattila4481]

Video starts at 2:20

[@NB512]

Why have you started ruining your vids with long built in 'adverts' ?? It completely jars the vid, and I wont bother watching you any more. Very disappointed.

[@taylortripp8598]

Nn Bb if you get KZbin red you wont have to worry about ads. I believe.

[@NB512]

I was talking about your presenter going on and on about some irrelevant sponsor during the video !!! Hence my use of the phrase "long BUILT IN". Only someone very stupid would think I was talking about KZbin's own adverts, which luckily I already avoid.

[@felixonthemac]

ruins the mood in a big way

[@Nick871203]

i dont mind that they promote stuff in their own videos, they gotta make money some how otherwise we wont see much decent stuff. but yeah this guy didnt exactly do it very well. it dragged on a bit an well didnt exactly have a theme of some sort so it was clear what they were talking about. like was talking about the video then suddanly was on about something else lol. take linus for example he does it very well.

[@W-SS]

Could you do a video about the RDA SecOps from Avatar? You always reference the scenes when you mention “strip-mining resources” so it would be pretty cool if you did an actual video on them.

[@johnp139]

How much have airliners really changed in the last 60 years, at least visually and speed wise?

[@ser3rm711]

Money

[@abemartinez9623]

Makes sense that they reached the pinnacle