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For example, the magic in my world -- Sensecraft, or just Craft for short -- generally requires physical contact to be used on someone else. It's highly integrated into society and can help as much as harm, so unless there's a reason not to trust someone, people are a lot more comfortable with random touches. A hand on the shoulder to help someone see something far away, or holding their hand to enhance their balance to superhuman levels.
There's a lot of variance between cultures, of course, but generally I think someone from my world would be surprised by how small touches like that can come across as overly intimate in the "real" world. They'd feel very restricted!
This was really interesting for me to notice and think about, so it got me curious if any of y'all have similar things going on in your worlds.
I'm not sure about subtle, but in my scifi setting there's an implicit assumption that random people will have the time and competence to help you with whatever you need because there's an extremely strong biological and cultural bent towards being a polymath willing to help out.
If a piece of your suit goes kaputt and there's no AI assistance on hand you might just ask a random kid if it's willing to get it fixed up for the right price as easily as we'd ask for a light in our world.
Intelligence has been extremely democratized so the baseline is somewhere we'd consider highly gifted virtually everywhere.
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Depends on hab/planet. Sometimes it's implanted knowledge, often it's cultural with an enhanced ability to comprehend, focus and reason supported by a superior education system. After a few thousand years of continuous research didactics has become something of a hard science so creating teaching materials that equal the most engaging science show or parable you've ever encountered is as routine as creating an attention grabbing thumbnail would be for a reasonably skilled YouTuber.
At 15-19 you can probably do most things required to maintain a spaceship. Not exceptionally well but if the reactor has the big sad you'll probably be able to understand what the diagnostics say and make it right.