[HPforGrownups] Re: WW Technology V Muggle Technology

[Mrs.) Lee Storm (God Is The Healing Force]

No: HPFGUIDX 100749

| From: timjones002000
| Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2004 11:09 AM
|
| stephenflynn001 wrote:
| > I was looking through some back postings and I saw one on
| > the above topic and I do believe that WW technology is better
| > than Muggle technology.  Simply put why fix something that
| > is not broken.  There is less risk to an individual and to
| > the environment.  Does anyone have an opinion on this?
|
[Tim]:
| I would disagree with this.  Surely, the advances that have been made
| by muggles have outsripped anything that the ww has to offer.  Based
| on the books ww technology has not advanced in many a year while
| muggle technology has come on in leaps and bounds especially in the
| past 100 years.  Space exploration is a prime example.

Well, I'd love to know more about the Wizarding Wireless Network. <Grin>

Let's see:
They've got elevators/lifts (MoM);
They've got automated receptionists (MoM);
They've got flying memos (MoM, which beats mail shoots and sorters);
They've got security scanners (MoM Security Desk);
They've got several forms of transportation--portkeys, floo powder,
apparation, broomsticks...no traffic jams; :-)
They have radio (That Wizarding Wireless Network).

Now, of course, all of these things are magically controlled, but it is
their form of technology.

My thinking is that they will come up with more stuff as need requires.  Is
it not true that, in time of war, many technological advancements are made
which then carry over to the everyday world?  So, does the possibility not
exist that the same principles apply to the wizarding world?

I'm sure we haven't seen everything in the Department of Mysteries...things
which may be under development and will possibly come out as the need for
them requires.

Now, as far as Wizard Vs. Muggle...which is better? I can't help but think
that maybe some of the stuff was based on muggle tech...loosely, perhaps.
But, let's say, a wizard saw something he/she thought was cool and decided
to work on the same idea in a more magical way.

Will wizards get into space?  Perhaps they already have; we just don't know
about it yet. <Grin>

Cheers,

Lee :-)

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