What if the industrial revolution hadn't been limited to the US and Western Europe? What if the British and French Empires had allowed it to spreed the Middle East, Africa and Asia?
What impact would that have had on the World? Could we instance have seen and less religious Middle East?
The Industrial Revolution wasn't limited to the US and Western Europe by some shadowy conspiracy of Rich Elites (tm). The United States, Britain, and France didn't sit down one afternoon over tea and croissants and decide "I say, old chap...I think it's time for us to industrialize, wot?" "Oui!" "Heck yeah!". It was (as most 'revolutions' are) the result of a whole web of social, economic, and technological factors. Absent any one of those factors, and the Industrial Revolution won't happen. It's rather like the "Fire triangle" of "Fuel, Heat, Oxygen"....you can have any two of those available in perfect safety, but when all three coexist, you get a sudden state-change that can be quite shocking and violent.
If the social, technological, and economic precursors had been present in Africa and / or the Middle East, nothing the British, Americans, or French could do could stop an industrial revolution. If they weren't present, nothing the Great Powers could do would start one.
Given the magnitude of the economic, technological, and social changes needed to allow an industrial revolution, it's almost impossible to predict how Africa or the Middle East would have developed.