The most likely case is that the message will be from a civilization with a far superior technology.
Second, aliens might be able to rule the world with their superior technology.
We may die in space, or on the world of some species that merely has superior technology to us.
"Surely with your obviously superior technology, you should have been able to find it?"
But the superior technology of this world was evident, in many more things than television.
Q. America is banking on its superior technology to win.
We've run into a culture and a technology far superior to ours.
The risk of bringing the superior technology to bear on the problem was just too great.
And they're not really used to thinking that there may be someone on this planet with superior technology.
Some people claim that superior technology is being used here.