I didn't not find this outlandish enough to put in ASB but others might disagree.
Lets say that all events regarding electricity in ancient times happen but everybody from William Gilbert to Michael Faraday, who would later inspire Andre-Marie Ampere, Georg Ohm, and James Watt never happen.
Electricity is essentially a lost technology like cement was for a time and Damascus Steel still seems to be and it is never manipulated or understood by humanity. What technological discoveries would be made in its place?
I don't really expect timelines of ideas to develop from this, but if you want to then by all means.
I will go first:
Without the rise of computing technology or even a hint of its possibility, eventually military logicians are able to dig up the blueprints of Charles Babbage's Difference Engine and Analytical Engine. While this is incredibly useful in the incredibly accurate counting and planning of military logic and, post-war, is used for stock market trading, it is not suitable for any sort of inter-connectivity so nothing like the Internet can ever spring from it and few outside of corporate or military circles ever find any use for it.
Lets say that all events regarding electricity in ancient times happen but everybody from William Gilbert to Michael Faraday, who would later inspire Andre-Marie Ampere, Georg Ohm, and James Watt never happen.
Electricity is essentially a lost technology like cement was for a time and Damascus Steel still seems to be and it is never manipulated or understood by humanity. What technological discoveries would be made in its place?
I don't really expect timelines of ideas to develop from this, but if you want to then by all means.
I will go first:
Without the rise of computing technology or even a hint of its possibility, eventually military logicians are able to dig up the blueprints of Charles Babbage's Difference Engine and Analytical Engine. While this is incredibly useful in the incredibly accurate counting and planning of military logic and, post-war, is used for stock market trading, it is not suitable for any sort of inter-connectivity so nothing like the Internet can ever spring from it and few outside of corporate or military circles ever find any use for it.