HRogge Wrote:@Ace: This sounds like 2030 or later tech... maybe even 2040+...I'm pretty sure you could build all but the magical parts of a Crown, as a lab prototype by 2020. This would be mushy tech, as much hard tech as you can get away with. You then need the sensors and effectors - those depend on how research into magic goes. Then you need to build a standard version that can be mass produced, even given help from wave tech at least 18 months. Finally, you need to get them out and accepted in wide use by the public, which could take three to five years.
Yes, some time in the 2030s sounds credible, unless something pretty amazing happens.
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