Technological Innovations
Scenarios exploring how different technological developments or their timing might have changed history
What If The Atomic Bombs Were Never Dropped on Japan?
Exploring the alternate timeline where the United States chose not to use atomic weapons against Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, potentially changing the course of World War II's conclusion, the Cold War, and nuclear proliferation.
What If The Bell System Monopoly Never Ended?
Exploring the alternate timeline where AT&T's telecommunications monopoly was never broken up, fundamentally altering the development of American telecommunications, the internet, and global technology markets.
What If The Bhopal Disaster Was Prevented?
Exploring the alternate timeline where the 1984 Union Carbide gas leak in Bhopal, India never occurred, potentially saving thousands of lives and transforming industrial safety standards across the developing world.
What If The Birth Control Pill Was Never Invented?
Exploring the alternate timeline where oral contraceptives were never developed, profoundly altering women's rights, reproductive autonomy, demographic patterns, and social structures of the 20th and 21st centuries.
What If The Bismarck Was Never Sunk?
Exploring the alternate timeline where Nazi Germany's most powerful battleship evaded British forces in 1941, potentially altering the naval balance of power in the Atlantic during World War II.
What If The Black Monday Crash of 1987 Never Happened?
Exploring the alternate timeline where the largest single-day percentage decline in U.S. stock market history never occurred, potentially reshaping the trajectory of financial markets, regulation, and global economic development.