Technological Innovations
Scenarios exploring how different technological developments or their timing might have changed history
What If Facebook Failed?
Exploring the alternate timeline where Facebook collapsed in its early years, dramatically reshaping social media, tech innovation, privacy norms, and digital communication across the 21st century.
What If Facebook Was Forced to Break Up?
Exploring the alternate timeline where antitrust regulators successfully forced the dismantling of Facebook's social media empire, reshaping the digital landscape and the future of Big Tech regulation.
What If Facebook Was Never Created?
Exploring the alternate timeline where Mark Zuckerberg never launched Facebook in 2004, dramatically altering the development of social media, digital privacy norms, and information sharing in the 21st century.
What If Faster-Than-Light Travel Was Achieved?
Exploring the alternate timeline where humanity overcame the light-speed barrier, revolutionizing space exploration, interstellar colonization, and fundamentally altering humanity's relationship with the cosmos.
What If Fortnite Never Became Popular?
Exploring the alternate timeline where Epic Games' battle royale phenomenon failed to capture the gaming world, dramatically altering the landscape of gaming, streaming, and digital entertainment in the 2020s.
What If Fossil Fuels Were Abandoned Earlier?
Exploring the alternate timeline where humanity transitioned away from fossil fuels decades before our current efforts, potentially avoiding the worst impacts of climate change while reshaping global economies, geopolitics, and technological development.