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[D&D]. How would the abundance of magic and magical engineering help create modern technological advancements like air travel and space flight?
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D&D level magic would allow for many of the same conveniences as modern technology, but it would probably look very different.

Air travel, for instance, would probably look like naval ships that were enchanted to fly, not vessels with wings that create lift. The very idea of a wing shape that creates lift would be unnecessary, and it's unlikely that anyone would bother researching it.

The same is true of space travel; *Spelljammer* features naval-style vessels with their own gravity fields and atmospheres, and their Spelljaming Helms allow casters to move the ships through space.

Teleportation also mitigates a lot of technology. Why go to the trouble of creating a supersonic airship if you can just open a portal and pop over to a different continent for lunch? Or to a different reality?

In terms of medical research, the whole germ theory of disease is rendered obsolete when you can have someone lay on hands and fix whatever ails you. You don't need to cultivate penicillin if you can just brew a healing potion, and you don't need psychiatry when someone's insanity is very likely the result of *Crown of Madness*.

The one area where technology seems to clearly outpace magic is telecommunications. Speaking Stones are a poor substitute for even a cheap cell phone, and a scroll and quill have nothing on a kindle. Google and Wikipedia provide far better access to knowledge than a musty library in some wizard's tower.