[OT] [I mean totally OT] Re: What can you "new"

[Joel C. Salomon]

Walter Bright wrote:
> You don't have to look far back to see many examples of superior
> technology burying a far more powerful foe. For example, there are
> several cases where a handful of stringbag airplanes sank capital
> battleships.
> 
> Stirling's "Island in the Sea of Time" is about bringing modern weapons
> to bronze-age battlefields.

Then, of course, there’s Arthur C. Clarke’s “Superiority”, that turns
this trope on its head.

—Joel Salomon