Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal @midwest.social m_f @midwest.social 9mo ago 2005-03-29 https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2005-03-29No alt textBonus panel
Just a warning, the wiki article spoils the entire thing on the first sentence of the plot.Also, one can find the full story with a search (like here: https://eyeofmidas.com/scifi/Turtledove_RoadNotTaken.pdf ). If it's not spoiled, it's a very interesting one.
I thought a lot about that story when there was the whole blowup about the possibly-easy-to-make-room-temp-superconductor a while back. Of course as expected it wasn't real, but it was fun to imagine how things would be if it was real and we had discovered it much sooner.
Related short story: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Road_Not_Taken_(short_story)
Just a warning, the wiki article spoils the entire thing on the first sentence of the plot.
Also, one can find the full story with a search (like here: https://eyeofmidas.com/scifi/Turtledove_RoadNotTaken.pdf ). If it's not spoiled, it's a very interesting one.
I thought a lot about that story when there was the whole blowup about the possibly-easy-to-make-room-temp-superconductor a while back.
Of course as expected it wasn't real, but it was fun to imagine how things would be if it was real and we had discovered it much sooner.