For example, the Prior plague, would we need offworld or off-reality contacts to be able to deal with it, or is modern medicine up to the task, with mRNA vaccines and CRISPR?
It took an alien modified by interdimensional beings to cure it initially. But once they could observe an antibody they were able to manufacture the vaccine. With more outside help, but apparently without alien materials.
Testing if I can post from lemmy to kbin.
Reading this on Kbin.
I think it’s hard to gauge when looking back. In Window of Opportunity, Malak has a fold out picture screen; we now have folding smartphones, but looking back you would realise how futuristic that concept would have been in the late-90s/early 2000s.
The post itself is on Kbin, so no surprise there. There is one on Lemmy ([email protected]), but it doesn’t seem to be partnered with the Subreddit the same way as this one.