Scenarios about 'digital economy'
The digital economy refers to economic activity that results from billions of online connections among people, businesses, devices, and data through digital technologies. It encompasses e-commerce, online services, digital platforms, and technology-enabled business models that have transformed traditional economic structures since the late 20th century. The digital economy has revolutionized how value is created and exchanged, challenging conventional notions of markets, labor, and governance while creating new opportunities and inequalities in the global economic landscape.
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.
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.
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.
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.
What If Artificial Intelligence Development Stalled?
Exploring the alternate timeline where artificial intelligence research hit insurmountable barriers in the early 2000s, dramatically altering the trajectory of technological development, digital economies, and global power dynamics in the 21st century.
What If Artificial Intelligence Disrupted Employment Earlier?
Exploring the alternate timeline where AI-driven automation reached disruptive employment capabilities in the early 2000s rather than the 2020s, fundamentally reshaping labor markets and societies decades earlier.