Looking at the THS timeline for two reasons.

[Tyneras]

The THS timeline works reasonably well if you simply double the time to a lot of the dates. 2012 becomes 2024, 2030 becomes 2060, 2100 becomes 2200, etc. You would only need to shuffle around a handful of dates to make it match up with the real timeline.

This means the late 2020s and 2030s start having all the exciting space colonization stuff that was put in the 2010s. Maybe wearable computers finally happen in the later 2020s.

I personally think tripling the length of the timeline would be much more realistic, but I think that waters down the THS flavor of wild, out of control change too much.

[TGLS]

Originally Posted by Tyneras

The THS timeline works reasonably well if you simply double the time to a lot of the dates. 2012 becomes 2024, 2030 becomes 2060, 2100 becomes 2200, etc. You would only need to shuffle around a handful of dates to make it match up with the real timeline.

Honestly, you're probably better off never naming a specific date of an event that happens in the next twenty years and just gerrymandering a start date of the timeline. Begin the timeline something like: "The year is 2050. The terraformation of Mars initiated by radical space libertarians is bearing fruits for the early settlers. Genetically enhanced children are coming of age. Artificially constructed persons, termed 'bioroids' are making legal waves. Early experiments in computer artificial intelligence are finally showing signs of sentience" and then begin naming events after that, like, "2053: Malaysian Revolution installs Infosocialist regime."

And well if you feel it's coming too fast, add a couple decades in and gerrymander a different start.

Originally Posted by Tyneras

Maybe wearable computers finally happen in the later 2020s.

Define wearable. Smartphones are probably close enough, unless you're looking for Google Glass, but that had social problems, not technical problems. If you're looking for ones that mount on clothes that's probably stupid and only going to happen if they are machine washable.


Then again having said all this I have half a mind to call THS an alternate history where:
1) The centralization of power around Xi Jinping didn't happen, allowing China to continue an oligarchical course
2) Vladimir Putin didn't become leader of Russia, and so Russia continued a downward turn allowing NATO to disintegrate and the EU to fill the gap.
3) Stephen Harper didn't get involved in Canadian politics, and so regionalism in Canada intensified

And from those changes you can justify basically anything.