Ontarian Technological Progression

Ontarian technology is far ahead of Humanity's. However the pace of advancement has not followed the same progression as Humans. One whole tribe of Ontarians are responsible for scientific study, creation and operation of Ontarian Technology, which both slows and rapidly advances Ontarian tech in a way humanity has not experienced.

## The Intelligen

The Intelligen Tribe are one of the 13 tribes of Ontaria and have a monopoly on science and technological progress.

In Ontarian pre-history certain members of the Ontarian race were more curious than others. Others more scientifically and philosophically minded. Before the Tribal Powers came to be groups of these Ontarians formed, and due to migration and nomadic tendencies larger groups began to form in pre-history communities.

At a time when Ontarians were trying to survive, study and academic disciplines were not a high priority. Intelligen and Sanctuary City historians have determined that it was the founding of Ontarian cities that allowed the formation of beginnings of the Intelligen Tribe.

Cities were safe havens, and stone age tools increased agricultural yields for all Ontarians. The pace of life became easier and leisure time developed. These changes to Ontarian civilisation gave time for academic study. Due to the adaptivity of the Ontarian genome, as study and academic discipline developed in the cities, participating Ontarians would change and evolve into the Intelligen Tribe.

Driven by their curiosity, which increased relative to their increasing intelligence, the Intelligen tribe were nomadic. They frequently moved from city to city to share and learn more. This diversified the Intelligen gene pool, increasing intelligence even more.

By the end of the stone age on Ontaria the Intelligen Tribe was fully formed and masters of scientific study, data analysis and information retention.

With the tribe fully developed, with an internal government that crisscrossed the globe into large urban areas and nations, technological progress was set to rapidly progress.

## The Ontarian Scientific Method

Humans have been utilising the scientific method (in one form or another) for studying, evaluating and predicting the nature of the universe for thousands of years, however the practice was not codified until the enlightenment period.

In contrast Intelligen have been practicing the scientific method, as humans understand it, since their copper age, which is equivalent to the human bronze age. Except it began thousands of years before the human's.

The Ontarian scientific method differs to that practiced on Earth because of the unique information retention abilities of Intelligen. The Intelligen are more conscious of the gaps in their knowledge than humans. This created a culture where study must take years to progress and evaluate. Intelligen do not report individual discoveries sometimes for fifty years after the original discovery. This is because the Intelligen mind fixates to a greater degree on what is unknown about the discovery not the potential of the discovery.

When smelting copper developed, the foundation of bronze age technology, the dissemination of this knowledge took centuries to apply to not only Intelligen themselves but also the wider Ontarian civilisation. Intelligen studied smelting for decades after it's discovery before applying the knowledge. In fact smelting copper led to the discovery of smelting of Iron fairly rapidly, however that also took longer to disseminate because now Intelligen had a new discovery to study, which divided their attention. There was also the possibility that Ontarians might skip the Bronze age altogether and leap to iron instead.

When bronze era tech took off, it spread around the whole planet in a decade, much quicker than humanity achieved, and the practice was fully understood. Bronze age tools and weapons from this period out match anything humanity ever produced in quality. This is due to it being completely understood and methods to smelt and utilise copper rapidly taught to the other tribes.

It is this slow and in-depth exploration of scientific knowledge that created a rapid technical progress at times, but only after centuries of study. Intelligen released their knowledge only when it could be communicated effectively, and all potential applications and problems were known.

While humanity developed industrial age technology slowly over time into the 17th and 18th centuries. Ontarians began their industrial revolution two thousands years ago, after a thousand years of documented study and experimentation on the possibilities of things like steam, mechanical engineering and chemical engineering. While it took humanity roughly three hundred years to advance agriculture, construction, transportation and machines across nations, leaving many undeveloped in their wake, Ontarians had spread the tech across the whole planet in two decades. Other tribes also understood the tech in that time, due to advanced teaching methods.

It is worth noting that the rapid release of technology into wider Ontarian civilisation is always appropriate to what is needed. Whereas humanity would plan their industrial progression haphazardly, with no thought to the long term consequences, Ontarians would reveal their tech when it was ready, and it's effect on the planet would be minimal, efficient and long lasting. In cities like London for example, the sewage, railway and road networks must be constantly upgraded and redone to match newer rapidly released technologies and necessities. The railway network on the Ontarian central continent by comparison has barely changed since it was laid. While London's internet infrastructure is constantly being re-jigged to accommodate available faster internet speeds. Ontarians were able to go from no internet to 2020 human internet usage in a single year, since Intelligen had studied the possibility of an internet for centuries and knew how to implement the most advanced form rather than upgrade over decades.

This attitude has also meant that Ontarians have never experienced significant climate change, despite the use of industrial level technology for nearly three thousand years. Since the full effects of the release of CO2 due to fossil fuel usage were known to Intelligen, the effects were mitigated by cleaner fossil fuel development and restricted use. Due to humanity's rapid deployment of technology, humanity experiences significant fallout out when the effects are poorly understood. Ontarians have experienced less of this, which why nuclear power was studied for centuries and never released due to it's known long term medical and explosive dangers. Fusion power was also discovered alongside nuclear fission and studied as intently and determined to be a better use of resources.

## Intelligen Cultural Attitudes

Sanctuary City historians have concluded that the Patriarchal Period of Ontarian history has seen the most rapid technical development.

They have determined that this is due to the Intelligen Patriarch enforcing a greater sharing of knowledge for the wider Ontarian species. Before the Patriarchal period, Intelligen jealously guarded their knowledge and not just from the others tribes but also other Intelligen groups that might be culturally different across the planet.

A population boom after the Patriarchs were alive also meant more Intelligen to be available for studying the world around them.

The wider Intelligen tribes dispute this claim and disregard any assertion that their ancestors were so close minded and horded their gifts.

## The Future

Intelligen futurists are currently struggling with what the future will hold when Humanity catches up with Ontaria.

There is concern that because humans are now rapidly catching up that, human tech will far surpass Ontarian by the end of the current century.

Since humanity releases technology far quicker than Ontarians, taking less time to fully understand its implications, knowledge is spreading and advancing faster on Earth. Plus new tech is speeding up the progress such as AI. Intelligen do not use AI considering that their own minds are as capable or more so that non organic computers.

A minority of Intelligen futurists have noted however that human advancement may stagnate soon. The failure to rectify climate change caused by rapid, undirected industrial growth, may not be overcome by advances made.

An even smaller minority believe that Ontarians should intervene and give some technology to humans to prevent their extinction.