October 18, 2007

• If you could travel through time, what era would you visit and why?

  This is a great question, but my answer depends on two things.

  1. Can I go to the future?  That you say ‘era’ suggests not since I wouldn’t really know what eras exist in the future.

  2. Can I change history? Again, I’d assume not since you say ‘visit’.

  Ok, if I can change history then there’s really no question. I’d have to go back and stop Hitler and try to prevent the occurrence of World War II. There’s all kinds of atrocities I’d like to prevent but that seems to be the biggest and most important.  I might aslo consider doing as Orson Scott Card suggests and go back and stop Christopher Columbus from discovering America. That may well be a larger scale historical travesty with more far reaching implications, but I’m not sure. I’d probably go with the safe bet and take out Hitler.

  If I can’t change history but I can visit the future then I’m going as far in the future as I can. As a time travelling sightseer there’s really only one thing I really want to know and that’s how this litle human experience ends. I need to see what the end of time looks like with my own eyes. So I would.

  If I can’t go to the future, then I’d be a little bored with the whole time travelling power but I guess I’d go take a stroll in Ancient Greece and have a nice long chat with Socrates.

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