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Would you rather live 100 years in the future or 100 years in the past? #timetravel

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ArtfulBliss 5 May 31
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I'd have to go with the future. I already have a good idea of what the past was like and know that I would not fit in there. I'd rather discover what the future holds.

Mea Level 7 May 31, 2018

Ditto.

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Unfortunately, 1918 wouldn't be all that much further in the past, but I'd take it. Some of my favorite people and all of my favorite music were in their prime then.

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Past, I know what I know now. In 100 years I'll be too old to enjoy it 🙂 But I'm sure you meant if age didn't change. Same difference, I'd be an idiot in 2118 not knowing how things work and I can dazzle people with hope of what's possible in 1918 🙂

lerlo Level 8 May 31, 2018
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Even though it would be interesting to experience the feelings at the end of the war, I would not want to stay long. Economy at a terrible low, grief and fear from the war, worldwide flu pandemic, and terrible conditions. I would like to see what the future holds. Hopefully, we haven't ruined our planet entirely by then.

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Definitely the future because it hasn't been written yet

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The future must definitely, if we're still here, I would love to see how far we're have gone.

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Future. It may or may not suck but I know 100 years ago here did.

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At the end of WW I the world went into a series of nasty dips. No thank you. I'd rather take my chances on the possibility that we have learned a little something by 2118.

Unfortunately the boom bust cycle is part of the capitalist system which would collapse without it.

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Future for sure. Imagine the knowledge we will have.

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Future.

Coldo Level 8 May 31, 2018
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2118, Because I know the past lets see the future

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What woman or non-white person in their right mind would want to go to the past? Not to mention 1918--ring a bell? Millions die of influenza?

Yes. People pine for the "good ole days", but those days were not good for everyone.

@GuyKeith Exactly. That reminds me of my pet peeve Christmas carol. Some of you may have seen my rant on this before. "A caroling, a caroling, a caroling we go ... wouldn't it be wonderful if we could have again, peace on earth, good will to men?" Please, I beg of anybody who will, tell me ONE SINGLE DAY in the history of the known universe, that was peaceful on earth. No sucha thing EVER existed.

But we're going back in time with all of our current inoculations, so we'd survive the influenza outbreak. In fact, if we get there soon enough, we could donate bone marrow and a vaccine could be created that would save many who died from it. Not to mention several other things they could make vaccinations for from our bone marrow. That simple act could change the world. We could even warn the world about WWI and WWII...

@Kafir WW1 ended in 1918

@Kafir Well not WWI. But what if you did something and then suddenly popped out of existence? Butterflies and all.

@LenHazell53 that's true. My bad.

@Jenmcjen small price to pay to save so many. But then we move into time paradox territory. Technically, if I am able to successfully go back in time, then I also cannot change anything that world make me pop out of existence, or I'd never have been born, and therefore would never have been able to go back in time in the first place to change anything. So my interactions would ultimately cancel out that particular paradox just by being able to successfully arrive in the past in the first place.

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The fashion alone would be worth it for me. And if only have to wait a couple years. Also, it would give me plenty of time to ensure my prosperity during the upcoming great depression. Especially with all researched future knowledge...

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It might be a toxic, radioactive future - we don't know. So I can't answer.

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Remove all possibility of drumpy!

What if worse?

@Jenmcjen Define "worse"!?! Because every single day since the elections, I think it cannot get worse, and yet, it does.......

@AnneWimsey isn't that the truth. I can barely stand keeping up with the news. It sickens me

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I love art deco and the 20's
As an educated cis white male with knowledge of the future I think I'd do alright (or drop dead of disease)

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2118 because AI and robots will replicate and revive the environment; thus, preventing an extinction. I'd get a place on the O'Neill-1 cylinder, and migrate into space.

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Future, maybe by then we will become a space society and I'd have hope of getting this miserable hunk of rock. This is on the basis we haven't totally devastated the entire plant and now the cockroaches are in the dominant species.

Wait. Aren’t they already?

@Jenmcjen ??????

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I can learn about 1918 in books but no one knows what 2118 will be like. My curiosity would definitely take me into the future.

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In the past so I could be part of the expat movement in Paris

I know you would, relive "Midnight in Paris".

@GipsyOfNewSpain exactly. I would be figuring out how to hang with Gertrude Stein, Hemingway, Man Ray, etc.

@AmelieMatisse With your beauty and knowledge they may be the ones trying to figure out how to get to you.

@GipsyOfNewSpain that is lovely of you to say but that crowd had all the women they needed!

@AmelieMatisse But remember, you came from the Future, you been places they simply talked about dreaming. You will be the "She" and the "It". You will be "The Muse from a different Era". You will stand out from the crowd of groupies.

@GipsyOfNewSpain that's true

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Well given that 100 year in the past would mean being in the run up to world war two and the rise of fascism, McCarthyism and the cold war, neither.

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A hundred years ago wasn't that great of a time and at the rate and directions we are going a hundred years from now won't be that great either. I think I will just ride this train til it hits something.

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The average lifespan 100 years ago was around 48yrs for a male, it's around 76yrs now... Hopefully a hundred years from now it's improved even more, I'd very much like to have as much time as I can get.

ColeS Level 3 May 31, 2018
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Future, maybe they will find effective treatments for my autoimmune conditions.

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Neither.

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