Scientific Discoveries
Scenarios exploring how different scientific breakthroughs or their timing might have changed history
What If The Computer Age Never Emerged?
Exploring the alternate timeline where the critical developments leading to modern computing never occurred, leaving humanity without the digital revolution that transformed our world.
What If The COVID-19 Pandemic Never Happened?
Exploring the alternate timeline where SARS-CoV-2 never emerged or was contained early, preventing the global COVID-19 pandemic that reshaped society, economics, and international relations.
What If The COVID-19 Vaccines Were Never Developed?
Exploring the alternate timeline where COVID-19 vaccines failed to materialize, dramatically altering the course of the pandemic and reshaping society, economics, and global health systems well into the 2020s.
What If The Cretaceous-Paleogene Extinction Never Occurred?
Exploring the alternate timeline where the asteroid impact 66 million years ago missed Earth, allowing dinosaurs and other Mesozoic species to continue evolving alongside mammals in a dramatically different world.
What If The Dinosaurs Never Went Extinct?
Exploring the alternate timeline where the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event never occurred, allowing dinosaurs to continue evolving alongside mammals for the past 66 million years.
What If The Enlightenment Never Happened?
Exploring the alternate timeline where the intellectual and philosophical movement of the Enlightenment failed to take hold in Europe, profoundly altering the development of modern science, democracy, and human rights.