AHC: Have Tech stay in the 1980's/1990's Level by 2030

[KuboCaskett]

Inspired by this thread: https://www.alternatehistory.com/fo...echnology-available-by-the-late-1980s.413867/. So with a POD no earlier than 1900, how can technology stay at a late 20th century level by the year 2030 (barring minor advances of course).

Bonus points if no nukes are used; and/or the world geopolitical is close to that of OTL's 1980's if the POD is close to that decade.

 

[King Thomas]

Large scale fear of advanced tech making everyone unemployed.

 

[Insider]

transistor remains a curio in Bell labs shelf for longer. Much longer. When somebody else bothers to take the idea further, it has to compete with better vacuum lamps, (not 50's versions, but let's say 60's versions). As computers power accelerating pace of technological change this cuts off the most part of acceleration.

 

[KuboCaskett]

transistor remains a curio in Bell labs shelf for longer. Much longer. When somebody else bothers to take the idea further, it has to compete with better vacuum lamps, (not 50's versions, but let's say 60's versions). As computers power accelerating pace of technological change this cuts off the most part of acceleration.

How about the essential tools that sped up tech progress in OTL's 1990's get ignored? Would that do the trick?

 

[Emperor Norton I]

Undermine the space program. That means less economic support/feasibility/need for miniaturization, which will delay it's development. It would also undermine a lot of other technological innovations and developments made by the space program.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_spinoff_technologies

 

[Lalli]

Avoiding WW2 might delay some technological developments while. And ensure that some key persons who invented some technology die before inventions or not born.

 

[KuboCaskett]

Undermine the space program. That means less economic support/feasibility/need for miniaturization, which will delay it's development. It would also undermine a lot of other technological innovations and developments made by the space program.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_spinoff_technologies

Interestingly, the guy who brought mainstream attention to the spinoffs is a well-known sci-fi author; I guess having him dead before 1979 would do the trick?

 

[KuboCaskett]

Sorry to double post, but I found one way to achieve this: somehow prevent the internet from being invented in 1983.