User blog comment:Inferno Pendragon/World Building 1 : Tech Levels/@comment-1070010-20160302154645/@comment-1705775-20160302161752

similar to the nanites that created Adam Man then?

with bio-experimentation there will be many, many variants of nano-technology.. tech will get more and more advanced as the Eras move on.. my main theory is War-Cry brought the mainstream Earth back a few decades in terms of progress, it takes a while for Earth to recover to the tech level it should be at..

Every major attack on Earth has the potential to severely halter its progress in technology and with superhuman beings some types of tech may even be unneeded in the future.

I feel after War-Cry Earth's governments unite as one entity but become a lot more isolationist in regards to space/time travel as well as a lot less willing to progress rapidly in technology  save for military projects designed to counter superhuman and alien threats (in a way Voice won a small victory, he was defeated by Earth became much more wary of "non-humans" and their society evolved as such.. until near the end of Era 1 at least)