Technology
In the story line of the movie, common blaster weapons were said to use high-energy gas as ammunition; activated by a power cell and converted into plasma. The plasma was then released from a magnetic bottle effect to fire through collimating components as a coherent energy bolt. Inherent instabilities were said to limit the ability to precisely aim a blaster bolt, but knowing one's weapon well could strengthen marksmanship. Plasma energy was said to be dissipated as the bolt traveled, limiting range as the energy became incoherent. The science fiction further described that "longer range was achieved by using longer collimating tubes, to align the plasma energy carrier waves more closely through additional galvan circuitry".
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Famous quotes containing the word technology:
“Radio put technology into storytelling and made it sick. TV killed it. Then you were locked into somebody else’s sighting of that story. You no longer had the benefit of making that picture for yourself, using your imagination. Storytelling brings back that humanness that we have lost with TV. You talk to children and they don’t hear you. They are television addicts. Mamas bring them home from the hospital and drag them up in front of the set and the great stare-out begins.”
—Jackie Torrence (b. 1944)
“If the technology cannot shoulder the entire burden of strategic change, it nevertheless can set into motion a series of dynamics that present an important challenge to imperative control and the industrial division of labor. The more blurred the distinction between what workers know and what managers know, the more fragile and pointless any traditional relationships of domination and subordination between them will become.”
—Shoshana Zuboff (b. 1951)
“The successor to politics will be propaganda. Propaganda, not in the sense of a message or ideology, but as the impact of the whole technology of the times.”
—Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980)