Twilight of the Anthropocene Wiki

The year is 2021, and a new era for humanity looms on the horizon, but how human this new era will be is unknown.

This timeline consists of two major Points of Divergence:

• Following on from his patent of the AND-logic circuit element, Nikola Tesla experiments further and develops the first proto-transistor. While it takes a while for this technology to be utilised, its first use-case is in the sporadic adoption of desktop calculator units during the First World War, primarily for assistance in artillery calculations. This is just the start in the development of computing technology. Further adoption and iteration from this point on facilitates a significant shift in teh technological capabilities of humanity by the 2020s.

• The plane containing Fuhrer Adolf Hitler explodes on its way back from Smolensk, signalling the last moments of a unified German war effort. Instead of a rush to Berlin, the European front of WWII becomes a quagmire of ardent Nazi resistance, rampant German defections and insubordination, dog-eat-dog hostilities, and the culmination of the Western portion of the war via nation-rebuilding by the Allies, resulting in the three-way split of Germany into the Republic of Westphalia, the Prussian Democratic Republic, and the Republic of Danubia. In the East, despite many successes in defending its Pacific territories, the Japanese Empire is able to see the writing on the wall and makes moves towards a separate peace, ensuring the security of its holdings in Taiwan, Korea, and Manchukuo.

By the 2020s, futuristic technologies - those that science-fiction writers could only dream of decades ago - are now a facet of everyday life: pocket-sized supercomputers; holiday adventures to the Moon; integrated phygital interfaces mark “Smart Cities” the world over; cybernetic and genetic alterations as the fashions-de-jour; robotized police and military units; and new opportunities of resource extraction found in the capture and mining of asteroids in Martian orbit. Many are beginning to question if humanity will make it out of the near-future, and if we'll even be recognizable as human if we do.

Though both geopolitics and technology are both exceedingly interesting and unfamiliar, Statecraft and Ideology are give or take the same as in OTL; our pages on these 2 will show you what is the same, Market Liberalism, and the little flowers of TotA's politics, Anocratic Dirigisme, please fly on by!