Is it just me or is Asgard tech not really advanced enough...

[Jprime]

I dont think that Asgard tech is at the level it SHOULD be. Howcome the Belistner (sp) has doors that open when you push a big freaking button on the side of the wall? Howcome the computers are activated by moving around stones? Why bother with screens at all, why not just make use of neural links?

We know that some races use neural links, and with the Asgard intellect (we KNOW they understand how brains work; they transfer consciousness on a daily basis), it should be old hat to attach the brain to a computer.

Why even bother with speech, why not just wire up all the Asgard into a wireless AsgardNet? No more need to confer and waste the few seconds they spend convening!

Why bother???

[Erik Pasternak]

The answer to all your questions is so that viewers will be able to understand easily, without tons of explaniation.

[SnakeHead]

I dont think that Asgard tech is at the level it SHOULD be. Howcome the Belistner (sp) has doors that open when you push a big freaking button on the side of the wall? Howcome the computers are activated by moving around stones? Why bother with screens at all, why not just make use of neural links?

We know that some races use neural links, and with the Asgard intellect (we KNOW they understand how brains work; they transfer consciousness on a daily basis), it should be old hat to attach the brain to a computer.

Why even bother with speech, why not just wire up all the Asgard into a wireless AsgardNet? No more need to confer and waste the few seconds they spend convening!

Why bother???

Good point, maybe they do use neural links for the majority of functions.
I would say it is a good old fashioned hands on feel they crave or that it is dangerous to remove manual controls. There have been occasions when they needed other races like humans to assist them with ship operations etc.

[Jprime]

No-one said they couldnt have backups in case of a malfunction, so perhaps mechanical controls arent totally passe for them.

[SnakeHead]

No-one said they couldnt have backups in case of a malfunction, so perhaps mechanical controls arent totally passe for them.

Yea If they wanted to have everything automated or controlled by neural link they could do away with hands and transfer their consciousness into a large brain in a jar.

I suppose their hands are a form of mechanical backup as well.

[Ancient 1]

I dont think that Asgard tech is at the level it SHOULD be. Howcome the Belistner (sp) has doors that open when you push a big freaking button on the side of the wall? Howcome the computers are activated by moving around stones? Why bother with screens at all, why not just make use of neural links?

We know that some races use neural links, and with the Asgard intellect (we KNOW they understand how brains work; they transfer consciousness on a daily basis), it should be old hat to attach the brain to a computer.

Why even bother with speech, why not just wire up all the Asgard into a wireless AsgardNet? No more need to confer and waste the few seconds they spend convening!

Why bother???

It would make for a pretty boring show just to watch as the Asgard "think."

[aschen]

It would make for a pretty boring show just to watch as the Asgard "think."

Besides...those glowing Runes look spiffy!

[Mio]

When Thor does stuff on his little tablet, It doesn't seem like he's doing enough stuff to make whatever it is he's trying to do happen. There may be some neural link technology involved.

[aschen]

When Thor does stuff on his little tablet, It doesn't seem like he's doing enough stuff to make whatever it is he's trying to do happen. There may be some neural link technology involved.

Hey, if you arms were that skinny and frail- would you want to move them that much?

[AsgardCarnage]

yeah i would say its a combo of neural links and hand movments, maybe the like the to touch things, they can hardly move these days they use telports to move anywhere. at most they can only walk a few steps. if they wanted to put their brains into giant robots maybe they could. but then they would be more prone to the replicators, they needs a body and life support the replicators dont wanna eat.

look at humans there are a lot of purists out there how like to do things the old fashion way people write leters instead of email.

we havnb't seen to many other asgaud fly a whole ship by them selfs maybe thor is a purist, he is the supreme commander of the asgaurd fleet whos gunna tell him how to fly his ships?

also the asgaurd might not have advanced very far in the last few hundred years or so depending on how long they have had the cloning problem and been under attack by the replicators. all their scientific efforts would have been pushed toward making new bodies and stopping the replicators.

[Major Fischer]

No matter how advanced you are, sometimes the simplest way to do something is still the best.

[Jprime]

Still, aside from ships and clones, the majority of Asgard toys seem to fall inside the same range as Tollan stuff!

[Major Fischer]

Still, aside from ships and clones, the majority of Asgard toys seem to fall inside the same range as Tollan stuff!

It is never stated that they aren't in the same range as the Tollan stuff. Daniel's estimates that the Tollan were only a few hundred years ahead of us is questionable.... he didn't have a lot of data in Enigma.

[Mr Prophet]

No matter how advanced you are, sometimes the simplest way to do something is still the best.

Maybe they had trouble with neural links in the past. All it takes is one off day and some Asgard thinking stray thoughts of violence and it's goodbye to a small, pre-Industrial world.

[Gregorius]

I agree with JPrime, the Asgard don't look that advanced for a race that has 30.000+ years FTL technology, but imo the Ancients don't look that advanced either.

But what need to take into account is that no new minds are born/brought in the Asgard society, since they clone. This cloning and the lack of new minds will lead to a technological standstill, since always the same people research and there is no new generation of Asgard that might think differently about stuff.