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It seems like many TLs assume that technology isn't going to become much more advanced than ours in the early 21st century, no matter what POD is used. Science is often retarded or a tiny bit ahead, but we seldom see worlds that make ours look primitive. (This could perhaps be explained by a general tendency to prefer horrible crapsack worlds to more optimistic ones.) What I'm wondering is what POD you think has the most potential to really speed up scientific and technological progress, so that we are at least 50-100 years "ahead" when we reach the modern day.

To avoid the most obvious Roman/Islamic Golden Age/Black Death/Mongol-related PODs, let's say it has to be after the year 1500.
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