Contemporary History
Scenarios from 1945 CE to present day
What If COINTELPRO Was Never Exposed?
Exploring the alternate timeline where the FBI's secret counterintelligence program remained hidden from public view, potentially allowing domestic surveillance to evolve unchecked in American society.
What If Commercial Space Flight Developed Earlier?
Exploring the alternate timeline where private companies entered space travel decades before SpaceX and Blue Origin, fundamentally altering humanity's relationship with space exploration, technological development, and global economics.
What If Common Core Was Never Created?
Exploring the alternate timeline where the Common Core State Standards Initiative never came to fruition, fundamentally altering the trajectory of American education policy and standardization efforts in the 21st century.
What If The Concorde Never Crashed?
Exploring the alternate timeline where the Air France Concorde Flight 4590 never crashed in 2000, potentially allowing supersonic passenger travel to flourish into the 21st century.
What If Connecticut Addressed Its Economic Inequality Earlier?
Exploring the alternate timeline where Connecticut implemented comprehensive economic reforms in the 1970s to address its growing wealth disparities, potentially transforming the state's social landscape and economic destiny.
What If Copenhagen Implemented Different Urban Planning Strategies?
Exploring the alternate timeline where Copenhagen chose car-centric development rather than becoming a cyclist's paradise, radically changing urban mobility patterns across Northern Europe.