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Technology

Technology were the tools used by a civilisation. According toClarke's Law, "Any advanced form of technology is indistinguishable frommagic." (TV:Battlefield)

The firstGallifreyantime machine, theTime Scaphe, was poweredpsychically rather than technologically. (PROSE:Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible) TheArchons claimed that theTime Lords didn't discovertime travel for themselves, but developed it after they declared war on the Archons and stole their technology. (PROSE:The Nameless City) An earlyTime Lord colonisation effort forced the colonists to surrender their advanced Gallifreyan technology. (COMIC:Origins)

TheNeo-Technologists, led byRassilon, rose to power on Gallifrey, overturning itsmatriarchal society based onmagic andsuperstition. (PROSE:Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible)

Humans were among civilisations that eventually developed technology. TheSecond Doctor found that:

At various points in its long and very varied history, thehuman race questions where it's going – what it might become. And, sometimes, they worry that they've come too far from whatever they were before. Every highly evolvedindustrial society, on everyplanet, throughouthistory, creates a group who reject that technology. Who choose to live a life outside thecities, close to the earth. They might bereligious,political – maybe they're just following a dream of ancestors. Looking for anEden. I don't know. But they think it'll bring them closer to what it means to be human.Second Doctor[All of Beyond (short story) [src]]

TheNestene Consciousness identifiedthe Doctor's TARDIS as superior technology. (TV:Rose)

The uneasy truce that thePapal Mainframe enforced during theSiege of Trenzalore prohibited any sufficiently advanced technology in thetown ofChristmas, with the exception ofthe Doctor's sonic screwdriver, which was present before the truce was established. TheWooden Cyberman was created as a "low-tech" weapon to bypass this and enter the town. (TV:The Time of the Doctor)

The crowing technological achievement of theExxilons was theirGreat City. Built too-well however, the city'sbeacon drained all energy onExxilon to repair itself, depowering all technology and causing its builders to regress into a stone-age species that distrusted technology. (TV:Death to the Daleks,PROSE:Death to the Daleks)

Survivors of the2150s Dalek invasion of Earth believed that the occupation had set humanity's technological progress back by roughly two centuries. (AUDIO:An Earthly Child,After the Daleks)