1st March 2003, 5:28 PM
What's so inconsistant about all that? All that says is that this mysterious world has that technology, but just like when electricity was first introduced in our world, it's just a parlor trick right now, for the rich.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)