Technological Innovations
Scenarios exploring how different technological developments or their timing might have changed history
What If Games As A Service Never Developed?
Exploring the alternate timeline where the video game industry never embraced the Games as a Service model, fundamentally altering the economic structure, development priorities, and player experience of modern gaming.
What If Gaming Streamers Never Became Celebrities?
Exploring the alternate timeline where video game streaming never evolved into a celebrity-driven entertainment industry, radically altering digital culture, content creation economies, and the gaming landscape of the 21st century.
What If Gene Editing Was Developed Earlier?
Exploring the alternate timeline where CRISPR-like gene editing technologies emerged in the 1980s, drastically accelerating biotechnology, medicine, and raising profound ethical questions decades before our timeline.
What If Germany's Mittelstand Companies Took a Different Approach to Globalization?
Exploring the alternate timeline where Germany's famed middle-market companies embraced aggressive global expansion and public ownership models rather than maintaining their traditional conservative, family-owned structure.
What If Glasgow Transitioned from Shipbuilding Earlier?
Exploring the alternate timeline where Glasgow strategically diversified its economy away from shipbuilding in the early 20th century, potentially transforming the city's economic trajectory and avoiding decades of post-industrial decline.
What If Gold Coast Developed Beyond Tourism?
Exploring the alternate timeline where Australia's Gold Coast diversified its economy beyond tourism in the 1970s, transforming into a major technological and sustainable development hub for the Asia-Pacific region.