Scientific Discoveries
Scenarios exploring how different scientific breakthroughs or their timing might have changed history
What If IQ Tests Were Never Developed?
Exploring the alternate timeline where intelligence testing never emerged as a standardized metric, fundamentally altering psychology, education, and social hierarchies throughout the 20th and 21st centuries.
What If Japan's University-Industry Collaboration Was Stronger?
Exploring the alternate timeline where Japan developed robust university-industry partnerships in the 1980s, potentially transforming its economic trajectory and global technological leadership into the 21st century.
What If Life Extension Technology Was Developed?
Exploring the alternate timeline where scientific breakthroughs in the early 2000s led to effective human life extension technologies, fundamentally transforming society, economics, and the human experience.
What If Machine Learning Never Advanced?
Exploring the alternate timeline where machine learning technology stalled in the early 2000s, never achieving the breakthroughs that revolutionized AI and transformed virtually every sector of the global economy.
What If Mars Was Colonized Earlier?
Exploring the alternate timeline where humanity established permanent settlements on Mars in the 1990s rather than the 2030s, transforming space exploration, geopolitics, and the future of our species.
What If Moore's Law Never Happened?
Exploring the alternate timeline where Gordon Moore never observed or formulated his famous law, fundamentally altering the trajectory of computing technology and digital society.