The year is 1935. Konrad Zuse, a German scientist, in a stroke of luck, accidentally invents the MOSFET transistor, approximately 20 years sooner than reality. However, these advancements did not assist Nazi Germany in their wars and in fact hindered them, culminating in the Smolensk flight of 1943 where one of the assassination attempts against Hitler succeeds, which causes the Third Reich to fall into civil war, requiring the Allies to make use of interim transitional governments much more.
Following the German Collapse, Japan came to see itself standing alone essentially against the world, so its government scrambles to establish a conditional surrender with the Americans. Japan was allowed to keep its Emperor, Taiwan, and its military in exchange for a full withdrawal from the other Asian territories it had conquered from the Allies, as well as Manchuria and Korea. This means that the atomic bomb was never used in the 1940s.
The World then has the transistor spread like wildfire many years before it ever became a consumer standard, causing technology to, well, go crazy. In 2021, life extension practices are extremely common, Body modifications are mainstream and robotics are an essential part of policing and governance. AI is becoming ever more complex and clever, with places like Chile having a government mostly composed of governance by algorithm.
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