User blog comment:Perchan/Concerning Futuristic Storylines/@comment-4666155-20140920171207

I personally would tink any storyline that goes several centuries into the future would see a huge technological boom. Out of the human population, only about 10%, if I recall, can actually use magic. The other (what, 90%? My math skills are bad here) are Muggles; no magical capabilities whatsoever. So it naturally follows that they would proceed to place their efforts into technology, or so I'd think. Hell, when it comes to the human race, technology can never remain "stagnant", we're always finding some new innovative way of making our lives easier; I think that's the driving force behind most technological achievements; personal convenience. The other, given the improvements of the war machine over the years, would be convenience of killing: "how can we kill our enemies in the most effecient manner possible?" While Fairy Tail only focuses on Fiore, Earth Land consists of a shitton of other countries that I'm fairly sure have had wars with each other, have flimsy treaties but are still trying to one-up each other with new technology. So, yeah, human technology remaining stagnant is probably impossible, especially when you try to set a universe so far in the future; you have to show some kind of advancement, some kind of technological growth.

Also, this is a rather odd statement from you, as anyone who is even the slightest bit familiar with Daybreak would know the technology in that series (and subsequently, our own) is leagues above what the canon actually shows: Kill Sats, Fighting Armor, laser blades, Magitech in general. Even if you were to wave it off as say, "Alien Tech", the fact of the matter remains you introduce new technology all the time that Hiro wouldn't dream of including in a thousand years.

So, I say go for technological advancement: Lacrima Shredders, everybody! (Anyone who reads Animoprhs should get that.)