I would hardly say it's weird to possess a lower standard of technology. I believe that no matter how advanced your world is, it has to go through some period where it has technology, but not yet the vision to take that technology to its future extremes.
[all amiably, and then he laughs, a little, to himself. rueful] I just hadn't thought that mine would be the lower standard. What a small world it's turning out to be.