{"id":230,"date":"2021-03-25T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-25T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimclarke.net\/?p=230"},"modified":"2021-03-25T01:17:20","modified_gmt":"2021-03-25T01:17:20","slug":"are-we-living-in-an-alternative-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/2021\/03\/25\/are-we-living-in-an-alternative-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Are we living in an Alternative History?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It’s a compelling idea. So many outlier events, both the scary Black Swan-type that N.N. Taleb writes about as well as the simply unlikely, seem to be regular occurences all of a sudden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whether it’s Donald Trump’s election as US President, the Brexit referendum, a global Coronavirus pandemic, or even just Leicester City somehow winning the English Premier League football title a few years ago, the world seems to have taken a turn into the unpredictable, the unstable, and the frankly bizarre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And if we are in a uchronic timeline, is there any way back? We probably aren’t going to be able to reverse time, but perhaps we can leverage the idea of alt-history to understand and manipulate our own reality going forward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is something I suggest in my latest article for the always excellent Sci-Phi Journal<\/em>.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It’s a compelling idea. So many outlier events, both the scary Black Swan-type that N.N. Taleb writes about as well as the simply unlikely, seem to be regular occurences all of a sudden. Whether it’s Donald Trump’s election as US President, the Brexit referendum, a global Coronavirus pandemic, or even just Leicester City somehow winning … <\/p>\n

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