History Main / ModernStasis

* In "Doctor Who", at least in the 2005 and onwards series, Human technology sometimes has barely advanced in billions of years. One episode has humans in the year 100 TRILLION, at the end of the universe, still using conventional guns and other tech. Although, this could be explained by the fact the Doctor states humans have evolved to various different forms during their history, including gas creatures, while always eventually returning to this form, so it's possible that technology has been lost and reinvented.

** I highly disagree. There were many advances in technology between KOTOR and the film trilogies. Bacta tanks (more of a discovery than research but still), capital ships were able to hold many more weapons batteries (You know those Sith Destroyers which were the pinnacle of shipbuilding in their day? They were armed with 20 laser cannons and 4 turbolasers. Don't know the laser number on the Republic Hammerheads but they had 3 turbolasers. The late Republic and Imperial-era ships could hold ''hundreds'' and ''dozens,'' respectively. Furthermore, the Empire didn't greatly advance technology in any beneficial way. It spent most of its science budget on superweapons and torture devices that were only useful for keeping the terrified and discontent population in check. Nothing greatly beneficial to civilians' quality of life was ever made. The Empire also virtually halted the exploration of new territories, which had been a major source of innovation to the Republic because new alien civiliazations to trade with often meant new technology. The only interest Palpatine ever showed in alien science was Sii-Ruuvi [[PoweredByAForsakenChild entechment]] and [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt we all know that one turned out.]]

* Slightly averted in the Novelisation of ''StarTrek: The Motion Picture'' written by Gene Rodenberry (or at least with his name as author) talks about how a lot of the people on Earth are “New Humans” who have evolved to be more peaceful, less driven, and mentally calmer. Then you have people like Kirk who still use family names, still are willing to use violence, still have inner demons to drive them on…

** One has to wonder whether {{Halo}} really counts as this trope considering that they ''do'' have advanced technologies and the like. They [[AestheticsOfTechnology simply don't look advanced and futuristic.]]

* After the end of ''ScaryGoRound'' in 2009, which has always taken place in the present (with seasonal changes and all), its SpinOff ''BadMachinery'' did a TimeSkip three years into the future. Here, fashions, technology ect. still looking the same is of course [[JustifiedTrope justified]], because you wouldn't expect the world changing all too much just within three years. In conclusion, this comic probably won't suffer from {{Zeerust}} from 2012 on.

* After the end of ''ScaryGoRound'' in 2009, which has always taken place in the present (with seasonal changes and all), its SpinOff ''BadMachinery'' did a TimeSkip three years into the future. Here, fashions, technology ect. still looking the same is of course [[JustifiedTrope justified]], because you wouldn't expect the world changing all too much just within three years. Therefore, this comic probably won't suffer from {{Zeerust}} from 2012 on.

* After the end of ''ScaryGoRound'' in 2009, which has always taken place in the present (with seasonal changes and all), its SpinOff ''BadMachinery'' {{Time Skip}}s three years into the future. Here, fashions, technology ect. still looking the same is of course [[JustifiedTrope justified]], because you wouldn't expect the world changing all too much just within three years. Therefore, this comic probably won't suffer from {{Zeerust}} from 2012 on.

* After the end of ''ScaryGoRound'' in 2009, which has always taken place in the present (with seasonal changes and all), its SpinOff ''BadMachinery'' [[TimeSkip]]s three years into the future. Here, fashions, technology ect. still looking the same is of course [[JustifiedTrope justified]], because you wouldn't expect the world changing all too much just within three years. Therefore, this comic probably won't suffer from {{Zeerust}} from 2012 on.

Often happens during a DistantFinale. Not to be confused with NextSundayAD, where the time gap is realistically short. The polar opposite of TheSingularity.

** I highly disagree. There were many advances in technology between KOTOR and the film trilogies---bacta tanks (more of a discovery than research but still), capital ships were able to hold MANY more weapons batteries (You know those Sith Destroyers which were the pinnacle of shipbuilding in their day? They were armed with 20 laser cannons and 4 turbolasers. Don't know the laser number on the Republic Hammerheads but they had 3 turbolasers, . The late Republic and Imperial-era ships could hold ''hundreds'' and ''dozens,'' respectively. Furthermore, the Empire didn't greatly advance technology in any beneficial way. It spent most of its science budget on superweapons and torture devices that were only useful for keeping the terrified and discontent population in check. Nothing greatly beneficial to civilians' quality of life was ever made. The Empire also virtually halted the exploration of new territories, which had been a major source of innovation to the Republic because new alien civiliazations to trade with often meant new technology.

** I highly disagree. There were many advances in technology between KOTOR and the film trilogies---bacta tanks (more of a discovery than research but still), capital ships were able to hold MANY more weapons batteries (You know those Sith Destroyers which were the pinnacle of shipbuilding in their day? They were armed with 20 laser cannons and 4 turbolasers. Don't know the laser number on the Republic Hammerheads but they had 3 turbolasers, . The late Republic and Imperial-era ships could hold ''hundreds'' and ''dozens,'' respectively. Furthermore, the Empire didn't greatly advance technology in any beneficial way. It spent most of its science budget on superweapons and torture devices that were only useful for keeping the terrified and discontent population in check. Nothing greatly beneficial to civilians' quality of life was ever made.

* In ''DanAndMabsFurryAdventures'', the world is kind of an odd mesh of modern and medieval trappings, suitable for a fantasy world. Fair enough, but in Abel's story, which begins ''four hundred years'' before the main plot... everything, ''everything'', is exactly the same. There is not a single visible difference to the scenery, and the characters who were alive in both time periods (except Destania, who [[RetiredCompleteMonster retired]] in the interim) are exactly alike in personality.

** Because the series lagged behind "real-world time", the time skip on "Desperate Housewives" actually caught the series up to the present day.

* The mid 21st century in [[FirstEncounterAssaultRecon ''F.E.A.R'']] is a strange example. While technology has advanced beyond what we have today (there are clone soldiers and beam rifles, for example), architecture and design seems to be roughly the same, people are still using [[ProductPlacement Dell XPS computers]], and cars look like they came straight out of the mid-90s. Going back, the game also assumes that ultra-high tech products existed in 2005 and even the 1970s if you had enough money to buy them and enough crazy to use them for evil.

** Because the series lagged behind "real-world time", the time skip on "Desperate Housewives" actually caught the series up to the present day.

When the future doesn't seem all that futuristic and different from what a modern person would be used to, a setting may be stuck in a ModernStasis. Maybe a show that's mostly about family life in the present day has a FlashForward, TimeSkip, or DistantFinale and gets in way over its head. Maybe a science fiction setting bears an uncanny resemblance to the present day despite being set way more than TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture. In any case, things change much less than they really ought to. Worse than MedievalStasis in a way, considering how enormously and at which unprecedented speed the world has changed in just the last century.