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Post by Otto Kretschmer on Jan 7, 2023 17:08:24 GMT
With a PoD between 3000 BC and 1950 AD.
What PoDs can you guys come up with?
IMO invention of paper is a major possible PoD. If it manages to be invented by the Greeks or Romans, it adds a lot to the literacy.
Another one is no ww1. I think a world on which ww1 never took place would be more technologically advanced than our own, for various reasons.
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Post by Zyobot on Jan 10, 2023 2:19:45 GMT
Rather "unusual", but I once posited a (initially unrelated) "Most of Aristotle's Work Preserved" POD here, with the respondent arguing here that the preservation of his work enables a greater intellectual "scaffolding" that encourages a more "proto-scientific" approach to understanding the world. With time, this culminates in a gradualist slew of advancements that eventually places ATL about a thousand years ahead of OTL ( here), since technological progress is a highly interconnected and interdependent process rife with dead ends, preexisting "background inventions", and the means to disseminate information on a large scale through treatises and other literature. Not super specific as to what we can expect by ATL 2023, unfortunately, but due to the cumulative butterflies a POD this far back would produce, I can understand them not definitely claiming we'd have Moon bases by now or whatever. |
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Post by Max Sinister on Jan 11, 2023 15:56:31 GMT
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Post by lordroel on Jan 11, 2023 16:02:16 GMT
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Post by Max Sinister on Jan 11, 2023 16:22:18 GMT
Yeah, it's just a parody of "We could have advanced so far if only the Roman Empire hadn't fallen".
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Post by lordroel on Jan 11, 2023 16:31:42 GMT
Yeah, it's just a parody of "We could have advanced so far if only the Roman Empire hadn't fallen". Well then those who want can always read: the Romanitas Trilogy |
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