What If Major World Events Never Happened?

[PinkFloyd]

Think about how different the world would be if say the Holocaust never happened. What if one of the victims was like 5 times crazier than Hitler and Killed off most of like Asia or something (virtually impossible, I know)? Maybe one of the victims was an inventor that had just come up with a really cool invention, and it died along with them. I know that is crazy thinking. I just like hypotheticals.. How about 9/11? i mean one of the only reasons Bush got elected was because of 9/11. If it never happened, then Bush might have never been elected, and Kerry would have been. Plus we wouldn't be in as bad of dept because guess what? no troops in the Middle East. Plus we wouldn't need to repair the Pentagon and build another world trade center. Oh, and what about the lives lost in major events like this? They would be flourishing. What do you guys think?

[HexedDex]

If we got rid of current major events then we'd have new major events to replace them. If you mean just nothing ever happened and life went normally, then I guess we'd be more advanced technology wise. No wars to waste our resources no weapon building, no defensive measures. Life would be good.

[Harry Smith]

this is often referred to as the butterfly effect in alternative history. So say for example if Germany won WW1 then a Second World war starting in 1939 would butterfly away because Hitler would never have the same rise to power. However other world events would happen, say for example there is no 9/11, this could be due to AL Qaeda taking longer to plan and then say launching a dirty bomb in 2005. Its an amazing thing to think about because everything depends on moments that define our lives. I strongly reccommend having a look at the alternative history forums, they are goldust

[TheMatrix]

Well, they happened. And here we are today.
It's a silly waste of time thinking about how it "could have been different". Because then obviously something else would have happened. But that's irrelevant, since it didn't happen. Now we can all live happily ever after, knowing that there are things in the world that need not be cared about.

But let's take one example, just for shits and giggles: computers.
Computers were used in the 1940s to encrypt and decrypt war messages. Had there been no WWII, then there would also be no need for a faster computer. And then I wouldn't be typing this right now.
But WWII did happen, computers were innovated, and here we are today.

And that's all there is to it.

[Human]

If we got rid of current major events then we'd have new major events to replace them. If you mean just nothing ever happened and life went normally, then I guess we'd be more advanced technology wise. No wars to waste our resources no weapon building, no defensive measures. Life would be good.
in fact a lot of wars greatly increased the amounts of technology, both for peaceful reasons and for violent reasons.
of course morally everything would of been better without lots of wars

[TheBigUnit]

I mean maybe one of the few problems of a "utopia" is overpopulation which will cause a downward domino effect

[ProudConservative]

If the Holocaust never happened, I wouldn't be alive. My grandmother would've never come to America, meeting my grandfather.