User blog comment:Xaero Dumort/"Synthetics" as applied to the ending and the sentence that nullifies IT./@comment-4237253-20120624070354/@comment-4950455-20120624092858

Re: Synthesis as "trope" comment

The thing is, it's not really that it's difficult to accept or super-unrealistic as a concept. The problem is how it's done. Everything you list is biosynthetic technology; people sat down somewhere - metaphorically or not - and designed and "built" it.

With Synthesis, on the other hand, we just get a big glowing green light shooting out and somehow giving us all circuits. As the saying goes, space magic.