I'm still working out the new prerequisites for the Modern Era, but I'd like to start posting what I'm going to do. Here is the timeline of the early Modern Era, 1947-1955. The final tree is not going to look like this exactly, but here's what I'm trying to model.
are the really broad ones so they can fit just about anywhere, or are otherwise going to get some modification. The reason for this cutoff is that 1957 is the real beginning of the Space Age (Advanced Rocketry and Satellites).
Tech Date Event
Aerodynamics 1947 Bell X-1 first supersonic plane
Electronics 1947 Transistor invented
Modern Physics 1947 Quantum electrodynamics coined
Atompunk 1948 First Soviet bomb test
Deep Sea Exploration
1948
Bathyscaphe invented
Globalization 1948 GATT goes into effect
Television 1948 US TV networks (CBS, NBC, ABC, DuMont) established
Computers 1951 UNIVAC first mass-produced computer
Mass Media
1951
United States has coast-to-coast television service
Vertical Flight 1951 K-225 first gas turbine-powered helicopter
Jet Propulsion 1952 de Havilland Comet, first purpose-built jet airliner
Manufacturing 1952 Numerical Control machines patented
Pop Art 1952 Independent Group formed
Tourism
1952
Mass media and jet airliners open up travel to masses
Molecular Biology 1953 DNA molecule structure discovered
Scientology 1953 Church of Scientology incorporated
Biological Warfare 1954 Plum Island facility established
Long-Range Forecasting 1954 First routine real-time weather forecasting
Modern Health Care 1954 First organ transplant
Nuclear Power 1954 Obninsk Nuclear Power Plant first nuclear plant on power grid
Solar Power 1954 Silicon solar cell invented
Supersonic Flight 1954 Supersonic fighter aircraft in use
Minority Rights 1955 Beginning of the Civil Rights movement in the US
; I'm using it for the international organizations following World War II (United Nations, GATT, International Monetary Fund). This is going to be one of the kickoff technologies of the Modern Era. I'd like to move both the
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has a lot of stuff in it, and I'd to maybe break some of that up.