Economic Changes
Scenarios involving different economic systems, trade patterns, and financial developments
What If Colonialism Never Happened?
Exploring the alternate timeline where European powers never embarked on colonial expansion, radically reshaping global development, cultural exchange, and economic systems.
What If Colorado Managed Its Growth Differently?
Exploring the alternate timeline where Colorado implemented comprehensive growth management policies in the 1970s, potentially creating a different model for western development, environmental preservation, and urban planning.
What If Columbus Never Sailed to The Americas?
Exploring the alternate timeline where Christopher Columbus's 1492 voyage never occurred, potentially delaying European discovery of the Americas and dramatically altering the course of global history, colonization, and indigenous American civilizations.
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 Community Colleges Were Never Established?
Exploring the alternate timeline where America's two-year community college system never developed, fundamentally altering educational access, workforce development, and social mobility in the United States.
What If Compulsory Education Was Never Established?
Exploring the alternate timeline where governments never mandated universal schooling, dramatically reshaping literacy, social mobility, economic development, and the fundamental structure of modern society.