Alternate Timelines

Technological Innovations

Scenarios exploring how different technological developments or their timing might have changed history

What If Amazon Never Became Dominant?

Exploring the alternate timeline where Amazon remained a modest online bookstore rather than becoming the e-commerce giant and tech conglomerate that reshaped global retail, cloud computing, and digital services.

March 22, 2025 Read More →

What If Amazon Never Expanded Beyond Books?

Exploring the alternate timeline where Amazon remained exclusively an online bookstore, dramatically altering the landscape of e-commerce, cloud computing, and the global retail industry.

March 22, 2025 Read More →

What If Amazon Remained Just an Online Bookstore?

Exploring the alternate timeline where Jeff Bezos never expanded Amazon beyond books, dramatically altering the landscape of e-commerce, cloud computing, and digital services in the 21st century.

March 22, 2025 Read More →

What If Amazon Was Prevented From Expanding Beyond Books?

Exploring the alternate timeline where regulatory action or market forces confined Amazon to its original bookselling business, dramatically reshaping the landscape of e-commerce, cloud computing, and retail in the 21st century.

March 22, 2025 Read More →

What If Android Never Developed?

Exploring the alternate timeline where Google never acquired Android Inc. in 2005, radically transforming the smartphone industry, mobile computing landscape, and digital economy of the 21st century.

March 22, 2025 Read More →

What If Antibiotics Were Never Discovered?

Exploring the alternate timeline where penicillin and other antibiotics were never discovered, radically altering modern medicine, public health, and global demographics throughout the 20th and 21st centuries.

March 22, 2025 Read More →