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If you could go back to 1992, would you?
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Can I choose 29 years into the future, instead?
Don’t get me wrong, I’m definitely a child of the 80s. But going back a bit just means we end up HERE again. There have been some fantastical times in my past I’d love to live through again and some I’d like to do differently, but ultimately, you’ll still have the rest of your years to live through after those fleeting moments are gone. Then, where do you end up? Right back to 2020.
Yeah, I think I’d want to take my chances 29 years forward and hope it’s far enough ahead to get out of this current phase we’re in.
Quoting: AxX Great points there too. It would also create timeline distortion if you changed any outcomes... Could turn out better or worse. What will 29 years from now look like? Hundreds of books and dozens of movies deal with that very question. All of them wrong. Just take a look at “recent history” as an example. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). Sure, they showed video phones and tablets, but also had humans going to Mars in 2001, 33 years into the future. Speaking of the future, Back to the Future (1985) went 30 years ahead to 2015 and saw flying cars and holographic man eating sharks. Where are we now, in the real world 30 years later? Still on Earth. Still hanging wires from pole to pole for power. Everyone working to pay for those in poverty, rich still making sure the game goes on. Sci-fi may get some tech right, but it’s vision of society is always wrong. My guess for the next 29 years is sadly more of the same, but that’s why I’d love to skip ahead to it. Just to see if it does get better. :) True. Much of our advancements haven't changed the physicality of the world much. It's more in the mind... We are more hyper aware of what is going on in the world so the quickening and eventual singularity seems likely, but still a bit away. Covid was a hatchet in the door.
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