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Everyone replying seems to be confusing "timeline" with "generation" or "era", discussing how this point in time is better than other times in history. That is not what OP was asking.
That's true but I think irrelevant. People are posting examples of things that used to be bad and have improved. If you want your science fiction framing, just consider the timeline where those things didn't improve, and you have your answer.
Because so many of us didn't interpret the question properly at first, maybe the question could have been written more clearly, and it wasn't and that's okay, but I hope people looking for answers would be willing to do a little bit of logical reasoning.
It demonstrates how things could be worse, but aren't.
Yeah, it's basically look at all these improvements that happen in the last n years. This is obviously better than a timeline where those changes didn't happen.
It also gives context for what way things could be worse. Compared to a completely dissociated suggestion like, "the entire universe didn't spontaneously turn into farts therefore this isn't the worst timeline."
We live in a timeline where the niceties of this generation or era were possible and came to be. Seems like a pretty decent timeline to me.
Yeah, that's how I'm choosing to interpret them.