Ask what if
Choose a year. Change what happened.
Ask your own question or start with one below. The lab matches it to one of 82 scenarios run through the trained model.
This shows how the forecast changes when the model sees a different version of events.
Build an alternate history
Compose your own counterfactual. Run the real model.
The model that learned the corpus runs right here in your browser — nothing you compose leaves the page.
The sixteen events the model sees
Strike an event to remove it, or double it to weigh it more. Edits stack until you reset.
Invent something
4,057 inventions
Where inventions came from, over time.
The recorded center of invention moves from deep prehistory to the AI era. Click any band to inspect that period.
Choose your lens
Follow ideas, uses, mechanisms, and makers through time.
What surprised the model
Some inventions break the pattern.
Most inventions fit their period. These are the ones the model did not expect, plus the earlier moments it reads as most similar to 2025.
The biggest surprises in each era
Which past moments look most like 2025?
From 2025