No, you never said it, but the idea is implied in a lot of the comments I've been reading in various places and it's just an odd one.
Totally agree wtih your anthropologists thing. Best way - they've done that with several cultures already, iirc, and they live their lives and go on, but iknow that there's a world outside that's different to theirs.
I like the idea of an interconnected planet but maintaining indigenous cultures/areas as well, I think that's great, but surely it should be up to to people if they want to modernise or not and be aware of the choice they have - they might be native but it doesn't mean they're simple minded or stupid. But yeah, anthropologists go, learn the language and communicate and just figure out what's the what and then go. It's not like going there immediately means that they'll have ADSL and a McDonald's in a fortnight.
Also, I'd LOEV to know what they made of the helicopter ;)
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Date: 2008-05-30 11:49 am (UTC)Totally agree wtih your anthropologists thing. Best way - they've done that with several cultures already, iirc, and they live their lives and go on, but iknow that there's a world outside that's different to theirs.
I like the idea of an interconnected planet but maintaining indigenous cultures/areas as well, I think that's great, but surely it should be up to to people if they want to modernise or not and be aware of the choice they have - they might be native but it doesn't mean they're simple minded or stupid.
But yeah, anthropologists go, learn the language and communicate and just figure out what's the what and then go. It's not like going there immediately means that they'll have ADSL and a McDonald's in a fortnight.
Also, I'd LOEV to know what they made of the helicopter ;)