AHC: most technologically advanced world

[Otto Kretschmer]

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.

[Zyobot]

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.

[Max Sinister]

No Finno-Korean Hyperwar? SCNR.

[lordroel]

Jan 11, 2023 15:56:31 GMT Max Sinister said:

No Finno-Korean Hyperwar? SCNR.

Seems to have crawled out of 4Chan which is mostly never good in my eyes.

[Max Sinister]

Yeah, it's just a parody of "We could have advanced so far if only the Roman Empire hadn't fallen".

[lordroel]

Jan 11, 2023 16:22:18 GMT Max Sinister said:

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