technology

In the sci-fi series "Stargate" there are many examples of humanoid alien civilizations which both have ridiculously advanced technology and millennia-old traditions authentically preserved in their cultures and day to day life. For example, one civilization in the series, the Tok'ra, have...

So this is more a general question to be used in putting together a timeline (for a paradox game mod) than a specific timeline. How could industrialism happen in a timeline without colonialism and what shape would it take. historically, the industrial revolution was possible in the manner it...

Could the invention of planes be delayed by let's say 30 years? And if possible then what effect on the world would this have?

I'm kicking around the idea of a world that never had the Cold War happen after WWII ends (mainly with Stalin dead and replaced by a reformist fellow like Beria in spite of the odds and FDR living), and that many of the allied powers engage in a series of disarmament campaigns (yet still have a...

Open in the new tab for the background music ______________________________ 'For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics.' --Roger Bacon, Opus Maius (1267 CE) 'If this is the best of all possible worlds, what are the others?' --Voltaire, Candide (1759...

Originally I was going to ask this in the before 1900 section of AH.com but I was thinking maybe I should post this here. My question and this is also a WI as well, what if technology for intents and purposes by the 21st century remains as it did in the late 1800s and early 1900s? This is...

If for some reason the GDR and the Soviet Bloc continued to exist past 1989 (and Honecker-style hard-line politics remained the norm) how do you think the state would have handled the technological and social changes of the world in the 90s and 00s? Here are some clues from the OTL late 80s...

Some relatively common ideas on this board are early industrial revolutions occurring in the early Roman Empire, in the Song Dynasty before the Mongols, in Bengal in the 1700s, or in the Ptolemaic Kingdom/Hellenistic city-states. Other than those pretty common scenarios, what are some...

9 June 2008 Broughton Hall North Carolina State University Raleigh, NC The office of Professor Andrew Mozeppa was tucked into a far corner of the top floor of Broughton Hall. While a corner office is usually seen as a sign of status, in Broughton Hall, it was anything but...

I mentioned this a while back in the aesthetically pleasing AFV thread, but I've had this idea for a WWII period APC/IFV. Basically, you're looking at a 15 ton chassis (think BTR-80), 8x8, ~15-20 hp/ton, with a 37mm gun in a turret like the M8 Greyhound, armor proof against ~13mm ammunition...

Remember Abbas ibn Firnas? Here’s what might have happened if his glider had worked. “He flew faster than the phoenix in his flight when he dressed his body in the feathers of a vulture.”—Mu’min ibn Said The earliest known use for the kite was suggested by ibn Firnas himself: courier. Kitings...

So, should the world wars have not occurred, what technologies and sciences would be more advanced thanks to more people living?

János Arany, 19th century Hungarian poet wrote a trilogy of epic poems about the 14th century Hungarian knight, Miklós Toldi. The last part of the trilogy, Toldi Estéje "Toldi's Night" takes place at the very end of the 14th century, the titular character is an old man, months before his death...

The Islamic Golden Age was roughly between 750 AD to 1258 AD. During this time the Islamic world and the whole world because of the advancements of the Islamic world had a period of profound technological, scientific and societal advancements. What if, the Islamic Golden Age had been even more...

I think I recall reading that, for at least the first decade after integrated circuits were invented in 1958, the number of transistors per square inch doubled every 12 months, prompting Gordon Moore to predict in 1965 that this trend would continue for another 10 years; he revised it in 1975 to...

Summary: This is an Italo-centric techno-economic Tl starting in the 14th century, the Visconti duchy was perhaps the last pre-modern chance of a prosperous Italian state and this tl will delve into that. The POD will be revealed into the story. The Dance Of The Lion And The Serpent: The Story...

In OTL, during the early days of television, there had been cases throughout numerous countries in Europe and worldwide, where episodes of already broadcast programmes and series were routinely wiped from the tapes they were recorded on. The rationale was that these tapes were expensive. With...

How could Carthage have created a professional army, instead of mercenaries? Correct if I'm wrong but isn't the reason that they didn't was because Carthage had a lot of skilled people in the capital (Carthage). So, why didn't they just levy troops from Iberia, Berber North Africa, Sicily, or...

So, with the 20th century warships have gotten big. Very big. They are typically too large for rivers. However some rivers are much bigger than others. For instance the St. Lawrence is pretty deep, so a bit of dredging allows large ocean cargo ships to get as far as Montreal. Kolkatta meanwhile...

So I've been reading a little about the history of personal computing and computing in general in the late 70s up to the early 90s, before the current market stabilized around 'Wintel' computers, there were many competing technologies and standards, and many different systems for home computers...