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For More Mankind poll: what counterfactual scenario should Apple make the next, better show around? ("the Confederacy won" is not a valid option)

Posted by hollywood big shot (aka pickmix) Oct 20 '22, 14:15

it wouldn't be bad to see a modern Colonial America story in a world where we lost the Revolutionary War and the next 250 years was basically a West Indian Trading Company experiment across the continent

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Martin Luther died at a young age -- nm - ML Oct 20, 15:58 1
- nice to see you, your honor! -- nm - loosilu Oct 20, 16:12
I would love to see Apple adapt The Difference Engine, by William Gibson. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Oct 20, 15:37 5
- *reads the first paragraph of the wiki summary* that's some wild shit -- nm - hollywood big shot Oct 20, 15:41 3
  - Someone should write a sequel set in the near future of Hollywood movies populated by deepfakes and holograms, called The Indifference Machine. -- nm - Max Oct 20, 15:54 2
    - i think the next stage is direct cortical projection - hollywood big shot Oct 20, 16:06 1
      - like virtual Smell-o-vision. -- nm - Max Oct 20, 16:09
- Looking forward to The Peripheral tomorrow -- nm - Beryllium Oct 20, 15:40
Han shot first -- nm - peglegpete Oct 20, 15:32
Penicillin and other antibiotics were never discovered -- nm - znufrii, official Gen-Xer Oct 20, 15:21
IIRC there's a series of novels about what if the Black Plague was better at its job and killed off 99% of Europe - Reagen Oct 20, 15:18 1
- renaissance and age of enlightenment would have worked too, if they could have just left the religious bits behind -- nm - hollywood big shot Oct 20, 15:29
The Spanish Armada controls the Atlantic >1600 and colonizes west from the North American coast and North from Mexico until they border the French. -- nm - Max Oct 20, 15:06 1
- nobody expects the Spanish conquisition -- nm - hollywood big shot Oct 20, 15:09
the supersmart shark from Deep Blue Sea is leading a war against surface people for desecrating the oceans -- nm - peglegpete Oct 20, 14:58
Elian Gonzalez is allowed to stay. - Will Hunting Oct 20, 14:57 2
- or Florida is just allowed to finish its recount -- nm - hollywood big shot Oct 20, 15:02
- I like this. Very well done, Will. Because of one little boy, we went to war with Saddam Hussein -- nm - crash davis Oct 20, 15:01
at the end of the SEA - NE Super Bowl, they hand the ball to Marshawn instead of having Russell pass -- nm - crash davis Oct 20, 14:47
Cro Magnon and Neanderthal lines never died out. -- nm - TWuG Oct 20, 14:44 1
- also called Canada - hollywood big shot Oct 20, 14:48
That’s called “Canada”. -- nm - Mop Oct 20, 14:40
no WW I is an interesting one (empires continue into the 21stC), but I feel like that clash was inevitable. -- nm - Reagen Oct 20, 14:34 3
- Titanic doesn't sink and JJAstor takes down Wilson in the 1916 election (also JCAME never makes Titanic) -- nm - hollywood big shot Oct 20, 14:49
- Romans develop steam power instead of dismissing it as a toy. -- nm - Reagen Oct 20, 14:36 1
  - IIRC, they had wet cell batteries, too. -- nm - TWuG Oct 20, 14:43
Electric won instead of ICE -- nm - Beryllium Oct 20, 14:31 1
- (In the late 1800s / early 1900s, I mean) -- nm - Beryllium Oct 20, 14:32
A scenario where mankind doesn't suck. Like, no far-right in the XXIth Century. (NM) - Marlowe Oct 20, 14:28
Well considering The Man in the High Castle was one of the darkest most disturbing alternate earth series ever. Id tone it down a bit and go with - Jovian Oct 20, 14:17
China doesn't burn its fleets, discovers the West Coast of America. -- nm - Reagen Oct 20, 14:17

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