, I don't want to be harsh but well... putting the clock backward usually don't works, no technology could be "uninvented", same for magic, it's ok a bit of nostalgia once in a time but shouldn't be more than a bit. From the point of metaplot can't really uninvent anything in an evolving timeline as Shadowrun's one.
Well something like that happened, I'm not talking about calling Decker an Hacker or use the old lingo in shadowtalk, even the lingo evolve though, and SR is FAST,ask any Great Scaliness if you dare...
OK reading this seems more bad than I really think but those things are there... and I think I don't like it because was projected not at the "new" players but to sell the game to the old boogie like me but is a bit shortsighted if that, but yeah I'm doing a lot of inferences here from all the nostalgia around and maybe I wrong...
Technologies are "lost" all the time. and then re-invented.... So much so that it is scary. want a few examples?
Electricity is generally thought to have been discovered in the 1860s. Yet archeological evidence is pointing to the ancient Egyptians having electro-chemical batteries and filament light production....
The Pyramids of Mexico. Harsh terrain, few quarries, yet massive stone blocks seem to have been moved hundreds of miles .... or where they?
Mexico City, before the Spainards arrived was a floating city of 250,000... a feat we would be hard pressed to do today.
the printing press is credited to being invented in 1535 AD. Yet some Roman documents have recently surfaced, in them the writing was so precise, level and near perfect to each other. Current speculation is either the same highly skilled scholar wrote the documents, using an unknown method to keep his lettering, spacing, and angle precise, or a crude form of a printing press must have been used (which could also mean that the documents might have been mass produced as well.)
