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** Somewhat justified on the ships. BSG itself was a 50 year old military vessel. They deliberately point out that they use old, unnetworked computers because the technology was too vulnerable to Cylon attacks, and robotics was obviously abandoned after the wars. The bare-bones existence on a battleship wouldn't be likely to have many other obvious technologies. Their medical technology doesn't seem any more advanced than ours, but [[spoiler:this is 150,000 years ago, and]] not all technology develops at the same rate.

** Another example is an episode where Great Britain owns a city sized starship in the distant future, propelled by a space whale, and yet features fairly normal early 21st century looking rooms in at least some areas of the ship.

** One possible explanation for the disparity is that the sheer length of the war has potentially shredded all the advanced technology, with Gallifrey itself being under sustained siege, meaning that there's potentially nothing else left to fight ''with''. As one of the commanders states, they've used ''all'' the weapons in what was once the forbidden weapons vault, until the General corrects him and tells him tha t they haven't used the Moment-- the one that the Doctor has just stolen. Given that the Moment is not just a galaxy eating superweapon the size of a small box that could casually wipe out the two most powerful races in the universe, but is also entirely sentient with an atemporal perspective, a conscience, and utterly terrifying raw power, there is an entirely justified fear that it will judge its user. The Doctor's the only person crazy enough to even ''try'' using it.
** It's also worth noting that the Capitol based Time Lords were always a bit snobbish about everyone else, and by this point the High Council (i.e. [[PresidentEvil Rassilon]]) tended to view everyone else as expendable CannonFodder.

* ''Series/{{Garo}}'' has started to have this. The original 2005 series and other installments featuring it's cast can be generally assumed to be set in the year of release, but as the franchise has continued this has lead to other series set later in the timeline featuring a world identical to the time they were produced. And while the 4th series and it's spin offs were set only some 20-30 years later, the 3rd series and it's spin offs are set unknown years after that, and aside from occasionally featuring advanced technology in one specific area, still seem to be the modern day, and that series spin off, Kami no Kiba Jinga is believed to be set long after even that, and yet technology still remains the same.

* In ''Series/StargateUniverse'', it is revealed that, due to a TimeyWimeyBall, duplicates of the ''Destiny'' crew ended up on a habitable world 2000 years ago and were forced to establish a colony. While they had to do everything from scratch, lacking the necessary tools to construct anything beyond rudimentary housing at first, multiple {{Time Skip}}s show that the Novus colonists advanced pretty fast and had a decent-sized town (with modern architecture) within 3 generations. TimeSkip again to modern day. The Novus society has grown and expanded, but does not look much more advanced than modern-day Earth. Yes, the colonists had to struggle to start, but they had a huge head start with technology and science (admittedly, they do manage to cure several diseases that we still can't), so they should have advanced much further than what we see.

* ''Manga/TwilightStarSuiAndNeri'' is a {{Downplayed}} example. While the story is set five centuries into TheFuture, specifically 2531, Tetsunagi Island is more or less reminiscent of a civilization set in the modern era where it suffers from AnachronismStew, as they use paper bills and coins, old tech, radios and the town's buildings are reminiscent of what is seen in the 21st Century Japan. This is despite Earth being completely advanced to the point that things like [[CasualInterstellarTravel commercial space travel]] from Earth to other planets is commonplace. [[spoiler:But outside of Tetsunagi, in one of the cities that was seen in Chapter 10, it is completely futuristic and it has the hallmarks of a futuristic city like maglev trains, uniformly-built structures and multi-layered buildings.]]

* ''Manga/TwilightStarSuiAndNeri'' is a {{Downplayed}} example. While the story is set five centuries into TheFuture, specifically 2531, Tetsunagi Island is more or less reminiscent of a civilization set in the modern era where it suffers from AnachronisticStew, as they use paper bills and coins, old tech, radios and the town's buildings are reminiscent of what is seen in the 21st Century Japan. This is despite Earth being completely advanced to the point that things like CasualInterstellarTravel is commonplace. [[spoiler:But outside of Tetsunagi, in one of the cities that was seen in Chapter 10, it is completely futuristic and it has the hallmarks of a futuristic city like maglev trains and multi-layered buildings.]]

* ''Manga/TwilightStarSuiAndNeri'' is a {{Downplayed}} example. While the story is set five centuries into TheFuture, specifically 2531, Tetsunagi Island is more or less reminiscent of a civilization set in the modern era where it suffers from AnachronisticStew, as they use paper bills and coins, old tech, radios and the town's buildings are reminiscent of what is seen in the 21st Century Japan. This is despite Earth being completely advanced to the point that things like CasualInterstellarTravel is commonplace. [[spoiler:But outside of Tetsunagi, at least from one of the cities that was seen in Chapter 10, it is completely futuristic and it has the hallmarks of a futuristic city like maglev trains and multi-layered buildings.]]

* ''Manga/DragonBall'': At one point, the protagonists venture into a pirate hideout that's been abandoned for centuries in search of a dragon ball. The location features mechanical cranes and submarines, and the ball ends up behind an advanced security system featuring a ''guard robot''. Similarly, in a flashback explaining the origins of Demon King Piccolo 300 years ago, he's shown blowing up cities made of skyscrapers. For contrast, the present day in the dragon ball world is closer to TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture, having flying cars and capsules that can shrink and carry anything, but otherwise normal amenities of modern life. Still, the disparity is less than it should be for the amount of time elapsed.