Line #51 Main/TechnologicalTropes


1	->''You take a lever and a pulley and a winch and a wedge,\
2	You get a labyrinth of aqueducts and pyramid steps\
3	Before the Jesus, Archimedes on that miracle tech\
4	Year Zero, you could feel the future rearing its head\
5	Put a shoe on a horse, shoot a man with a gun,\
6	Steam power, bifocals, and mechanical funk,\
7	Manipulate electricity, no, it cannot be done,\
8	Yes it can, ain't a dam that can cancel the flood''
9	-->-- '''Music/AesopRock''', "Mindful Solutionism"
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11	Tropes pertaining to technology, those who use it, and people's attitudes towards it.
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13	!!Tropes
14	[[index]]
15	[floatboxright:
16	'''Subcategories:'''
17	+ AutonomousAndArtificialAppendageIndex
18	+ FuturisticTechIndex
19	+ TheInternet
20	+ MagicalComputer
21	+ PhoneTropes
22	+ RobotRollCall
23	+ TelevisionTropes
24	+ TheseTropesAreAvailableOnVideoAndDVD
25	+ ToolTropes
26	+ VehicleIndex
27	+ WeaponsAndWieldingTropes
28	]
29	* ActivationSequence: A machine or system is brought online via a lengthy process.
30	* TheAestheticsOfTechnology: The tendency to portray advanced tech using specific aesthetics that have changed over time.
31	* AliensNeverInventedTheWheel: An alien race lacks a technology that seems trivial to humans.
32	* TheAllegedComputer: An extremely shoddy computer.
33	* AlternateTechline: An alternate timeline where technology developed along unusual or different lines.
34	* TheArmorer: Provides necessary and/or high-tech gear for the hero, villain, or any type of team.
35	* AutoIncorrect: A spellchecker, autocorrect, or speech-to-text program messes up user input.
36	* AutomaticDoorMalfunction: Automatic doors have a tendency to fail in fiction.
37	* BambooTechnology: Surprisingly functional facsimiles of advanced technology cobbled out of naturally occurring junk.
38	* BiotechIsBetter: Organic technology portrayed as more advanced or better than mechanical technology.
39	* BlackBox: It's know ''what'' a device does, but not ''how'' it does it.
40	* BreakOutTheMuseumPiece: Making use of obsolete technology when the current stuff isn't available.
41	* CargoCult: Worship of technological artifacts.
42	* CrapolaTech: Low-quality tech that just plain doesn't work.
43	* CyberGreen: Technology being associated by the color bright green, or a combination of black and bright green.
44	* DataDriveMacGuffin: Important information is stored in a storage device (CD, USB drive, etc.), and it's the center of the plot.
45	* DigitalHorror: Modern digital technology used for horror.
46	* DiscoTech: Technology that heavily involves music.
47	* EnforcedTechnologyLevels: Rules exist limiting what kind of tech people can have.
48	* ETGaveUsWiFi: Technology is revealed to have been given to humans by aliens.
49	* EvilLuddite: A villain who opposes technology.
50	* GadgeteerGenius: A character who is good at inventing gadgets and other devices.
51	* GadgeteersHouse: A house filled with time-saving devices invented by the owner.
52	* GivingRadioToTheRomans: Giving modern technology to people in the past.
53	* GreaseMonkey: A character who works with machines and usually gets filthy doing so.
54	* HauntedTechnology: Machines with ghosts in.
55	* HigherTechSpecies: A race with access to technology far more advanced than other races, but still mostly comprehendible for them.
56	* HomemadeInventions: Gadgets built on a budget and out of whatever happens to be on hand.
57	* HopelessWithTech: A character who just doesn't get technology or gadgets.
58	* InsufficientlyAdvancedAlien: Otherwise advanced aliens who lack some crucial technology.
59	* InternetSafetyAesop: Think before you post and never give away personal information.
60	* InWorkingOrder: Alien technology can instantly and easily be used by humans.
61	* JustThinkOfThePotential: A character encounters a new, esoteric technology and realizes all the potential applications (military, monetary, etc.) it could be put to.
62	* LensmanArmsRace: Warring factions developing increasingly high-tech and devastating weaponry.
63	* LivingProgram: A computer program that is sentient.
64	* LostTechnology: Tech that used to be widespread and effective, but which has since been lost to modern cultures.
65	* LowCultureHighTech: A culture using technology far in advance of what its state of development would suggest, usually for war.
66	* LuddWasRight: Modern technology is bad.
67	* MachineEmpathy: A character can diagnose machines just by feeling or listening to them.
68	* MachineWorship: Religious worship of specific machines or of technology in general.
69	* MagicFromTechnology: Using technology to do things effectively indistinguishable from magic.
70	* MagicVersusScience: Scientists and wizards are portrayed as antagonistic toward each other.
71	* TheMagicVersusTechnologyWar: A conflict between a person or faction who uses technology and one who uses magic.
72	* MagiTek: The combination of magic and technology.
73	* MergingMachine: A machine that merges different objects into a single combined thing.
74	* MrFixit: Someone who can fix and/or improve any gadget brought to them.
75	* NatureAbhorsAVacuumCleaner: Animals hate vacuum cleaners.
76	* NatureVersusTechnology: The dichotomy between natural and artificial.
77	* NewMediaAreEvil: Arbitrarily-defined newer technology is seen as bad.
78	* NewTechnologyIsEvil: New tech presented as inherently superfluous and socially and morally damaging.
79	* NoTechButHighTech: Only counting advanced technology as being technology.
80	* NoPlansNoPrototypeNoBackup: One-of-a-kind inventions in fiction tend to be impossible to recreate.
81	* OldMediaAreEvil: Arbitrarily-defined "traditional" media is seen as untrustworthy
82	* OldMediaPlayingCatchUp: Releasing outside the net takes longer.
83	* OperatorIncompatibility: Technology difficult to operate because it was built for someone with different skills or body shapes.
84	* OrganicTechnology: Technology made from or out of organic life.
85	* PlugNPlayTechnology: All technology is compatible and capable of being joined with all other technology.
86	* PressureSensitiveInterface: Pushing an interface's buttons harder makes it work better.
87	* RagnarokProofing: Machines and structures that remain is surprisingly good shape long after being abandoned to the elements.
88	* ReinventingTheWheel: In games, the upgrades you research don't carry over between campaign missions.
89	* RockBeatsLaser: Low-tech forces defeat high-tech forces.
90	* RubeGoldbergDevice: An elaborate machine utilizing a chain reaction to achieve a simple goal.
91	* SchizoTech: Anachronistic mixes of technology.
92	* SufficientlyAdvancedBambooTechnology: Supertech with stone to bronze age aesthetics.
93	* TheSingularity: Increasingly rapid technological advances leading to increasingly alien or transcendent civilizations.
94	* TechnologicallyAdvancedFoe: The other guy's technology completely outclasses yours.
95	* TechnologicallyBlindElders: Old people don't know how to work new tech.
96	* TechnologicalPacifist: A character who thinks technology is great, except when used for warfare.
97	* TechnologyErasureEvent: A technology or several suddenly stop working.
98	* TechnologyLevels: Cultural advancement represented as an advance through a series of discrete levels.
99	* TechnologyMarchesOn: A work becomes dated as real-life technology progresses past what it depicts.
100	* TechnologyPorn: Extensive focus on complex and/or advanced machines for audience appeal.
101	* TechnologyUplift: Giving a culture access to more complex technology than it currently has.
102	* {{Technopath}}: A person with power over machines.
103	* {{Technophobia}}: Someone who is afraid of technology and potential harm that can arise from its use.
104	* TechnoWizard: Someone who can do ''anything'' with computers.
105	* ThisIsMyBoomstick: Showing modern technology to a less technic culture, usually in a threatening manner.
106	* TimTaylorTechnology: You can fix or improve anything by plugging more power into it.
107	* VideoCallFail: A video call that goes horrendously wrong, usually on the part of the user.
108	* VirtualAssistantBlunder: When your smart devices don't quite get what you're trying to ask them.
109	* WalkingTechfix: Someone who's uncannily good at getting recalcitrant technology to work.
110	* WalkingTechbane: Someone who's uncannily good at wrecking every gadget they touch.
111	* WickedToymaker: Someone who creates evil toys; often technological in nature.
112	* WrenchWench: A female mechanic.
113	[[/index]]

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