There is an alternative timeline in Western history where these Valkyrie bombers went into production, plutonium was available at every corner drugstore, and Michael Jackson is still alive.
Seriously though, something shifted in Western civilization around 1970. We see fingerprints of this shift EVERYWHERE, productivity growth, GDP growth, fertility rates, per capita energy consumption, research intensity, etc.
Its as if humans got to the Moon in 1969 and the gods said “whoa there, let's slow those cavemen down a bit, they werent supposed to reach the Moon until 2029.
For more on this list future, check out my essay:
risknprogress.substack.com/p…
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