How would the world look if Rome had not fallen?

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People often imagine a world in which Rome didn't fall, as a super futuristic cyberpunk world, in which our technology is 1000 years further ahead. But that is based on the assumption that technological progress would have just continued uninterrupted. If the timeline had deviated in 60 AD, with Heron of Alexandria going a step further and inventing steam engines, then yes, our world would look vastly different now, and we might live in a futuristic romano-cyberpunk world. But if the timeline would deviate a lot later, say with Majorian achieving to save the Western Roman Empire in 461 AD, then this does not automatically imply that there would have been immediate technological progress. In fact, technology might have developed at a similar pace as in our timeline, because a late surviving Western Empire would have been quite static and stable, more akin to the Eastern Roman Empire of our timeline, and that empire was not technologically far ahead of the others. So the question then fundamentally becomes when and how the timeline would deviate from ours, because that would determine how different that alternate world where the Roman Empire survives would look.