My technological system is simple, but varied and expansive. I have The Three P's:
Prerequisites: What you need first to get this technology.
Products: What the technology yields you.
Political Effects: These are side effects of particular developments. For instance, Robotic Automation causes fears that robots are taking over man's job, as well as the Frankenstein Syndrome outlined in Isaac Asimov's robot books.
Aerodynamics
Airplanes: Engine
Airplanes: Propeller
Alchemy
"A primitive form of Chemistry. Often involves finding immortality elixirs or changing elements from one perceived less valuable one to another perceived more valuable one, such as the transmutation of lead to gold."
Prerequisites:
Products: Alchemy Lab, Prerequisite of Chemistry
Political Effects: Little to none.
Antimatter Control
"The safe creation and use of antimatter in small quantities."
Astronomy: Early (Galileo, Chinese)
Astronomy: Modern (radio/infrared telescopes)
Barracks
"The process of quartering troops in specialized buildings."
Brass Smithing
Calendar
"The process of keeping track of the days of the year and of the months."
Chemical Weaponry
"Nerve gas and similar chemical agents for destruction."
Chemistry
Prerequisites: Alchemy
Clock
Cloning
Prerequisites: Genetics
Computers: Vacuum Tube
Computers: Silicon
Currency
Cybernetics and Bionics
Prerequisites:
Products Created: Cybernetic treatment (upgrade to current Hospitals), Cyborg Troopers
Electromagnetic Railgun
Exoskeletons (power armor)
Fiber Optics
Genetics
Gravity Control: Primitive
Gravity Control: Advanced (black holes)
Gunpowder
Holistic Medicine
Hydroelectric Power
Hyperspace Drive
Immortality Science
"Through genetics and medical technology, Immortality Science ensures extremely long lifespans of hundreds of years for most people."
Intercontinental Ballistic Missile
Internal Combustion Engine
Internet
Prerequisites:
Iron Oxidation
"The process of lacing oceans with iron in order to eliminate carbon dioxide. Typically used as a response to environmental pressures."
Prerequisites:
Products Created: Iron Boats
Ironsmithing
Lightning Rod
Machinegun
Mathematics: Advanced (from Algebra II to calculus)
Mathematics: Basic (from arithmetic to geometry and some algebra)
Mathematics: Modern (differential calculus, other modern mathematical breakthroughs)
Nanorobotics
"The process of micronizing computers to microscopic levels, as well as creating microscopic robots."
Prerequisites: Robotic Automation, Silicon Computers
Products Created: Upgraded hospitals. Prerequisite of Nanorobotic weaponry.
Political Effects: Little to none.
Nuclear Bomb
"A fission explosive
Nuclear Power Plant
Paper
Philosophy: Socratic (most of the early philosophers)
Philosophy: Lockean (political philosophy, also dealing with those like Hume and Descarte)
Philosophy: Modern (Sartre, the deconstructionists, Husserl)
Photography
Plumbing
Printing Press
Quantum Physics
Radio
Roads (not paths, but Roman-style roads)
Robotic Automation
Prerequisites: Silicon Computers
Products Created: Robotic Troopers, Robotic Factories
Political Effects: Growing unrest about the domination of automated "monsters." Care must be taken to avoid severe ramifications of the Frankenstein syndrome.
Sail
Prerequisites:
Products Created: Sailboat
Silk Making
Space Age Products
Space Travel: Early (Kennedy, liquid fuel rockets)
Steam Train
Submarines
Sundial
Supersonic Flight
Taming of Animals
Telegram
Teleportation
Telephone
Television
Terraforming
"The process of transforming entire ecologies and worlds into more suitable environments for exploration and colonization of other worlds."
Universities, Academies and Colleges
"Building places of higher learning."
Vaccination
"The process of giving a body a weakened or alienated form of a viral disease so that the body may produce defenses and protect against another invasion."
Viral/Bacterial Weaponry
Weather Control
Prerequisites:
Products Created:
Wheel
Writing
Zero-Friction Hulls
Prerequisites: Supersonic Flight, Airplanes or Space Travel, Aerodynamics
