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Power lines are a major feature of Konaha's greatness. Electric lights are exotic for the series.
Umm, where did you get this from? Even Wave Country had electric lights. (Vol 3, chp 19 pg 17, last frame, Vol 2, chp 10 pg 14, frame with Naruto walking down hallway)
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And suddenly Kabuto is using MRIs and a central database system with diagnostic capabilities? We are talking major technologic spontaneous generation here... Kabuto would only need such a thing , if it could exist in the first place, is if he suddenly couldn't use chakra any more. He is literally a character that can do all that the machine apparently can do with jutsu. That or if that disease was contagious.
Uhh, No. Far better to have a machine that will duplicate your diagnostic abilities so you can save your chakra for, you know, actually healing what's wrong. A diagnostic jutsu would only be used if you are in a hurry or in the field.
Every indication i've seen in the manga (up to the point they rescue Gaara) is that the tech levels are about equal to ours with three main differences. A: Cars seem to be a lot less common/non existant. (Thou they do have motors) and B: Guns don't seem to have been developed. and C: tech distrobution seems to be a bit less even. (Which is why I can suspend disbelief over the possibility of Seal based technologies)
(My apologies if this comes off sounding... hmm jerkish, but people underestimating Naruto tech levels pushes my buttons)
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Quote:Also it is (at least in the scanslation) explicitly called an 'Electric Scoreboard'.
As for the random selection machine? I failed to see that as a computer... a genjutsu cast by a guy we can't see on screen. Random number generators (like dice or pulling names out of a hat) have been around for ever. For all we know its literally two gys spinning convayer belts and adjusting them straight when they stop. If they had anything like that in the stadium to display names of combatants I'd consider it more likely.