Quote:That's nice... however... no. First I was speaking of the anime... so telling me that I should go read the manga is not really a useful comment. See the differences in Berserk, Full Metal Alchemist, Slayers, etc... for reasons why.
(My apologies if this comes off sounding... hmm jerkish, but people underestimating Naruto tech levels pushes my buttons)
You also are blatantly ignoring my point as a matter of logic. First of while having all that diagnostic computer equipment would technically save chakra... it makes no sense to be there in the first place.
The only reason the mudball your standing on has and MRI or a CAT scan is Star Trek fanboys.... as Star Trek (let alone TV) is something I've never seen in Naruto I'm going to have to disagree. The Tech tree is stupidly wrong in the world of Naruto for computers and medical scanning tech that aren't integrated into anything socially.
Tech comes from somewhere. The original Star Trek (in the process of figuring out how to do things within budget constrains) made up much tech that came out in resent decades. Among this stuff is personal computers, medical scanning equipment and cell phones... for a more extensive list watch the program 'How William Shatner Changed the World' on the History channel.
Lacking Star Trek the drive to make all this fantasy tech is different. They have Chakra Tech. Jutsu are Tech, just like electronics. Naruto's world is loaded with niija. That is why you don't see guns. Throwing weapons and elemental jutsu are far more useful than any musket around there. So guns are too weak a tech to develop for the ninja. Tanks were WWI terror weapons... slow, clunky, but got past all that annoying barbed wire and over some of those annoying trenches to some extent. Barbed wire was there to stall people for long enough to mow down with machine guns. No machine guns... no barbed wire, no tanks.
When you can outrun any early motorized vehicle, development by the military is not going to get funding.
The tech I've seen is all late 1800s or earlier. Except those two systems with monitors. Even the high tech ships Gaara took out in a filler movie were steam ships (as I've been told anyway). As I said the two examples of higher level electronics tech are random and spring forth from nowhere.
I'm sure nukes and Gundams would be useful to the ninja... it doesn't mean that they are going to get/think of them. No regardless of the usefulness of such item, there existence is not explained or logical.
I never could figure out were the power was coming from anyway... I mean no petroleum products, or coal mines, or hydro-electric plants, or wind mills, or large sources are in any smoke Kohona shots I've seen... Unless they are getting power from chakra or electric trees or something I can't figure out how they got the power in the first place.
At least having the city lit at night makes sense to develop for tech... but answering that they skipped decades of tech and research to make that medical equipment. Simply, because tech would be useful and usable doesn't mean it actually could be there in the first place. The medical tech machine being prime examples.
It could also be me, but I only remember the 'electronic scoreboard' having two names on it at once... and they wrote down the results... so I'm not sure is calling it a scoreboard makes sense. Electronic... I'll take your word for it I guess... but I doubt its more powerful that game show tech from the 1970's... I'd more believe it was two spinning semi round shapes with the names on them... during the matches the pins are retracted or pulled off so the names don't come up again. Mechanical in other words. That and a single lightbulb would make it and 'electronic scoreboard'.
Also... the only mass produced boosk I can recall is a little orange porn book and as far as I know it could be hand written. So printing presses are iffy, let alone a keyboard... spontaneously generated Kabuto keyboard aside. I doubt they even have modern paper as they don't have a crushed rock industry to support the road building.
I realize that this is getting off thread topic... but spontaneous electronic genesis is just plain terrible as an exclamation. 'Kabuto said, "Let there be electronic devices decades or more ahead of the tech curve!" and there was... and it came with a 4,000+ page manual, being the cannon explaination.