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== Fan
* Some ''[[Harry Potter]]'' fanfiction postulates that modern technology is discouraged or outright ''banned'' in the Wizarding World. In some stories, this goes as far as saying that using a gun is considered a ''worse'' crime than using an Unforgiveable Curse.
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== Literature ==
* ''Lady of Mazes'' by [[Karl Schroeder]] is set on a space station with varying technological levels enforced by ubiquitious nanotech. Different groups of people, united by common philosophies/religions, have chosen the level of tech they're comfortable with. For example, a society that values communing with nature and living in harmony might purposefully limit themselves to only Stone Age tech. If someone from a more advanced area goes into a "primitive" area, they will find that none of their high-tech gadgets work. The main conflict in the novel is due to a single group trying to enforce their high-tech [[Hive Mind]] on everyone.
** Another example from Schroeder is in his novel ''Ventus''. The eponymous planet was terraformed by powerful AIs called "Winds" in order to be a paradise for their human masters. However, [[A.I. Is a Crapshoot|something went wrong]], and the AIs no longer recognize humans. As soon as the colonists arrived their ships were shot down because the Winds see their technology [[
* ''[[Terminal World]]'' by [[Alastair Reynolds]] features a [[Big Dumb Object|giant megastructure]] known as "Spearpoint", a spiraling tower that is the last city on Earth. Within it, various technological levels are enforced by reality itself; the laws of nature seem to change between the levels. The higher up the tower, the more advanced technology becoming possible the higher up one goes. One of the lower levels is called "[[Steampunk|Steamtown]]", a higher up level is called the "[[The Fifties|Neon Heights]]", and even further up is "[[Turn of the Millennium|Circuit City]]". It's implied that people from the top of the tower, the "[[Crystal Spires and Togas|Celestial Zone]]", cannot even ''go'' to the lower levels, due to the advanced nanotech in their cells that starts to break down as soon as they go outside their zone.
* In [[Vernor Vinge]]'s [[Zones of Thought]] series, the physical laws of nature seem to vary depending on how far one is from the galactic core. Such that, the further you get away from the core, the more advanced technology is able to be. Earth is located in the "slow zone", [[Mundane Dogmatic|where physics works as we currently understand it]] (i.e. faster-than-light travel is impossible, no such thing as anti-gravity, etc). Further out is called "[[Mohs Scale of Science Fiction Hardness/World of Phlebotinum|The Beyond]]", where things like [[Casual Interstellar Travel|FTL travel]] and [[Artificial Intelligence]] become possible. Farthest is "The Transcend", a zone where [[Clarke's Third Law|magic and science lose any distinction]] and you have things like powerful AIs becoming akin to ''gods''.
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