The advantages of foresight would be negated if you can’t go back.
So not for me.
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If you had a time machine that would only go forward, would you step foot in it?
The advantages of foresight would be negated if you can’t go back.
So not for me.
Nope. One has a finite amount of time on this planet so I don't see why one would want to speed it up.
Couldn’t the same thing be achieved anyway by going into an induced coma for a few years?
Yes, but I am in my twenties, single with no kids, so I guess I can go enjoy the adventure without much to look back on and miss
But you are not missing out on time, because you will be conscious and present the whole time, your point with a coma is like saying you would be asleep for half your life, which is not the case OP is making, you will still live the same length of time, just in a different time.
Do you hang in stasis In order for time to catch you up...or do you simply skip time.
This last few years would be different depending 😄
I'll have another go.
Obviously it would depend how far you went but it would be weird, no sad, seeing my kids older, possibly even grandkids which you hadn't seen grow up.
Oh and it would be depressing as feck having missed out on City's Champions League final victory!
I have always wondered if you went back 500 years, how easy it would be to assimilate into normal life, like would my accent and mannerisms be so strange that I would be unable to settle into society
I bet language would be a problem. I'm sure ordinary people didn't speak full-on Shakespeare but I reckon there'd be some confusion.
On the other hand, there'd be loads of viruses that your body has never encountered before so language wouldn't be your major problem for long
Yes, to try and have some faith in the human race restored - we're not a very likeable bunch at the moment.
No chance, the worlds going to shiiiiit, imagine what it will be like in 100 or 200 years? Cardiff will be mainly underwater for starters but folks in places like Gwaelod, Tongwynlais and Radyr and cyncoed will all have nice sea views on their doorsteps....invest there now!
Hopefully you’d end up in a post-lockdown world!
The relationships that define us will have either disappeared or weakened, depending on the timescale concerned.
It could be totally bewildering on many counts and the objects of many of our passions may no longer exist or be so niche that there are few other individuals to share them with.
Technology may have advanced so rapidly that it leaves us totally befuddled and feeling like idiots. (A bit like Bluetit perhaps )
We don't know how things will be regarding international conflicts, crime rates, personal liberty, climate change (including rising tidal levels), poverty, green energy and a myriad of other matters but advances in medicine and science may cure ailments we may currently have or which we may contract in due course.
You have to ask yourself if you prefer another twenty years with the wife here on Earth or:
Have another another 50 years with her in the future or:
Leave her here, take the time machine and replace her with a sexbot that does the washing up.
She may insist on you taking the latter option, of course.
But Shirley if you had a time machine that only went forward how would anyone know that it worked?
same question, but would you take a one way trip 1000 years into the past?