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Line 2: [[File:decades 3954.jpg\|frame\|link=Some Anvils Need to Be Dropped\|[http://radoxist.deviantart.com/art/Worth-enough-73247873?q=&qo= "Worth enough?"], by radoxist]] {{quote\|'''Not Invented Here:''' ''Trade of technology will not exist. One place in the world will have all the techno-gadgets while all the others will be harvesting dirt.'' ~~{{quote\|'''Not Invented Here:''' ''Trade of technology will not exist. One place in the world will have all the techno-gadgets while all the others will be harvesting dirt.''~~\|''[[The Grand List of Console Role Playing Game Cliches]]'' }} A large-scale form of [[Schizo-Tech]]. Line 14: See also: [[Crystal Spires and Togas]], [[Advanced Ancient Acropolis]] and [[Ludd Was Right]]. Compare [[Low Culture, High Tech]], where a backwards culture uses technology it doesn't understand. {{examples}}▼ ▲{{examples}} == Anime &and Manga == * In ''Windaria'', the coastal city-state of Itha runs on windmills and admittedly sophisticated dams and waterwheels, and its military has hot-air balloons, crossbows, Molotov cocktails, and some kind of unarmoured hovercraft. The nearby mountain kingdom of Paro is a dieselpunk dystopia with monoplanes, assault rifles, and tanks. Somehow they fight a war on equal terms. * In ''[[Kino's Journey]]'', cities are separated by great distances and form separate countries. Also, travel is dangerous and most people never leave their hometowns. Thus, there are vast differences in technology and culture between cities, which vary from medieval to futuristic in nature. This is made even stranger by the [[Schizo-Tech\|eclectic technology]]. Line 32: == ~~Fanfiction~~Fan Works == * In ''[[Aeon Natum Engel]]'' due to many circumstances, the defenses and general technology level of the Order-controlled Iceland consists mostly from the stuff dating back to the first Arcanotech War, when the fic takes places during the Aeon War, which itself was formerly known as a Second Arcanotech War. Line 42: == Literature == * ''[[Oryx and Crake]]'' (by [[Margaret Atwood]]) is set somewhere late in the 21st century, and shows present day trends of inequality taken to the extreme. The privileged few live in gated communities in comfortable settings, the majority live in the "Pleeb Lands" which are disadvantaged, violent (or at least perceived by the privileged as such), drug fueled and dependent on mass-produced technology that trickles down from the upper echelon. * In ''[[~~Old Kingdom\|The~~ Old Kingdom]]'', people are using swords and riding horses while in neighboring Ancelstierre they're using guns and shooting bombs at things. This is because most technology fails in the presence of magic (this also means that the Perimeter Guards have guns ''and'' swords, because any magical creature that gets close enough will make their guns fail). * Invoked deliberately in ''[[The Ear, the Eye and the ~~Arm\|The Ear the Eye And The~~ Arm]]''. In the year 2194, Resthaven is an independent country within Zimbabwe that was designed to emulate tribal African culture. Outside of Resthaven people use [[Flying Car\|hovercars]] and all sorts of futuristic technology, while inside they herd livestock on foot and don't use technology much more advanced than a saddle. * In ''[[Time Scout]]''{{'}}s depiction of [[Victorian London]]., ~~Neighborhoods~~neighborhoods of opulent wealth are right next those of absolute squalor. * In [[The Pendragon Adventures]], the Milago and Bedoowan live within spitting distance of each other: the Milago live in small huts and shit in holes in the ground, while the Bedoowan castle has running water and uses naturally glowing stones to provide artificial light. * ''[[Wheel of Time]]'': implied in in Towers of Midnight, in {{spoiler\|Aviendha's vision: the descendants of the Aiel are reduced to little more than savages, while the Lightmakers, descendants of the Seanchan, have "high-tech" equipment (they are building a railway through the desert and have some kind of shotgun). Justified because the Seanchan could benefit from the technological improvements that were popping up in Rand's academies, while the Aiel were almost hunted to extinction.}} == Live Action TV == * ''[[Star Trek: ~~Enterprise\|Star Trek~~ Enterprise]]'' is a bit of a confused setting in this regard. The producers made a mighty effort to make the art, style, technology and costuming designs evoke a "Pre-[[Zeerust]]" feel much like that of ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series\|The Original Series]]'' while being "modern" and [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future]] enough for contemporary audiences (while not breaking the Pre-Zeerust feel). Whether this tightrope act succeeds or not depends mostly on the viewers' tastes. * ''[[Buck Rogers in ~~The~~the 25th Century\|Buck Rogers]]'' is also a bit confused. In the pilot, New Chicago and other major cities were protected by domes, and a [[Mad Max]] atmosphere reigned outside them. That seems to have been dropped later in the series. Line 63 ⟶ 62: * The [[BattleTech]] universe applies this concept across a couple hundred worlds, with technological and industrial infrastructure destroyed by massive wars. Major worlds enjoy the use of starships, giant robots, cybernetics, faster-than-light communications, and worldwide computer networking, while many other planets fell to 19th-century lifestyles, with a starport or two and a FTL communications array somewhere on the planet so they aren't totally cut off. ''[[Traveller]]'' does this too, but as an analogy of the [[Truth in Television]] example above: the low-tech worlds still have access to more advanced technology, but the local industrial base isn't equipped to produce it so it has to be imported at extra cost. It's a similar situation in ''[[Firefly]]'', which [[Word of God\|was not]] inspired by ''[[Traveller]]'' but you'd be forgiven for thinking it was. In ''[[Warhammer ~~40000~~40,000]]'' different planets within the Imperium can have massively different technology levels and cultural views. Examples range from "feral worlds" with mostly medieval technology (save what's imported from other planets), to planets with fairly modern-looking cites (except with more skulls and statues) to dystopian hive worlds where the entire populace lives inside enormous plasteel towers surrounded by uninhabitable wasteland. *** They actually stated in one ''White Dwarf'' that they'd created a fictional universe where you can have rock-waving barbarians and antigravity tanks on the same battlefield. * ''[[Ravenloft]]'' can be bad for this, with domains ranging from the Classical Era to Psuedo-Victorian era. Granted it makes more sense when you realize each domain is snatched up from a different world, and some of the [[Dark Lord]]s tend to isolate their populations from the influence for multiple reasons. Line 117 ⟶ 116: ** Another rather blatant example is the differences between South Korea and its neighbor North Korea. North Korea is sandwiched between South Korea and China, two industrial nations with healthy economies. In comparison, North Korea has literally zero electricity usage and infrastructure, and outside the capital, you'll only find farmland and military bases. To put things in perspective, [http://tizona.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/north-korea-is-dark.jpg this is what North Korea looks like at night compared to its wealthier neighbors]. * [http://www.snopes.com/photos/architecture/detroit.asp This] image of Makati, Philippines—a economically booming city just outside Manila—houses shacks next to gleaming skyscrapers, though the image is sometimes incorrectly identified as being [[Motor City\|Detroit]]. * [[Inverted Trope\|Inversion]] along the US-Mexico border; the US side is mostly barren while the Mexican side will have development. Played straight in some places, outright averted in others. [https://web.archive.org/web/20120418231918/http://www.hispanicallyspeakingnews.com/notitas-de-noticias/details/a-view-of-the-us-mexican-border/13612/ In this picture, right side is Mexico.] {{reflist}} Line 123 ⟶ 122: [[Category:Video Game Settings]] [[Category:Truth in Television]] [[Category:Decade Dissonance]]▼ [[Category:Alliterative Trope Titles]] ▲[[Category:~~Decade Dissonance~~{{PAGENAME}}]] [[Category:Dissonance Tropes]]