Go There And Do That

…but don’t ever talk about it

The Doclopedia #274

Altered (United) States: Washington “Welcome To The Future”

On the rainy morning of March 19th, 1999, a 400 square mile of Washington state, mostly centered on Seattle, swapped places with the Seattle of March 19th, 2039. Only 7 lives were lost in the swap, although another 290 people were injured, mostly in a minor way. About 17,000 more people were treated for psychological problems in the weeks afterwards.

The swap lasted exactly 10 hours. It changed the world like this…

At the Microsoft campus, of which only half was swapped, they got their hands on the 2039 version of Windows and the computers it ran on. Attempts were made to profit off of this, but by the time they debugged Windows ’39 (in spring, 2004), some Linux fans had adapted a 2039 distro of Linux and totally conqured the OS market.

Attempts to replicate the computers of 2039, took until 2013 due to the chips being made by technology based upon theories that had not come up yet.

After reading a 2027 film industry magazine, studios the world over forbade 3D technology until 2025.

Over the next 5 years, almost all of the federal Legislative Branch was arrested, fled the country or left politics.

George W. Bush dropped out of the presidential race. Al Gore won, but his vice presidential running mate was Jerry Brown of California.

Google, Facebook, YouTube and many other internet sensations were created by a group of female college students. By 2009, they were the five richest women on Earth.

The 9/11 attacks never happened, but on 7/04/01, about 300 terrorists (or were they terrorists to be?) were rounded up by Navy Seals. Osama bin Laden died in his prison cell in a secret CIA facility on December 3rd, 2022.

Self replicating robots with advanced AI programs moved out of Seattle fast and began following their base programming to “help humans make this a better world”.

That last bit is why, in the current year of 2049, Earth is cleaner, more peaceful and free of climate change problems.

And all of the humans are living off planet because the robots won’t let them come back.