I really enjoy that a lot of the time, and also love alternative histories.
So much of what we have is a combination of effort, a personality, a huge dose of luck, and being at the right time. So much is simply fashion. Almost none is inevitable.
A few chance changes and there's no internet, or Babbage completed his Analytical Engine, or the early electric vehicles are the type the world settles on to develop instead of internal combustion. Or a different set of changes and we get Man in the High Castle or Rocket Ship Galileo.
So much of what we have is a combination of effort, a personality, a huge dose of luck, and being at the right time. So much is simply fashion. Almost none is inevitable.
A few chance changes and there's no internet, or Babbage completed his Analytical Engine, or the early electric vehicles are the type the world settles on to develop instead of internal combustion. Or a different set of changes and we get Man in the High Castle or Rocket Ship Galileo.