I picked future because of sanitation and medicine. Of course it might be post-apocalyptic and that would suck.
Really though, I'm so tired of hearing about the past (especially as it impacted my family). Can we please stop reliving the Great Depression, WWII, and Vietnam? Can we please move on?
The future is going downhill. Things are only getting worse and wars will only become more brutal.
I will gladly live in the past.
To know the what i know now, priclesss.
Buy dell stock make money , sell dell stock purchase Google stock. And see some of the bands my dad saw live would ne amazing.
To the past so I can stop future Biff from giving himself the sports almanac thus preventing him from altering the space continuum time line.
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I'd rather see my future cause I then I could do things now to better my future
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u I have a Mayflower ancestor, several who fought in the Revolutionary War (including two who died as a result,) and an ancestor who saved the life of Daniel Boone. I would have a great time meeting my ancestors!
I'd love to visit the past.
There's so many different times and places in history I'd love to visit. I'd like to experience what life was like back then
1979 that way I could die before people lost ability to take a joke.
Probably the future. If I could interact with older me, ask questions, so that if life needed to turn around in some way, I could give it a try.
Into the past, I don't know if I'd visit "little" me because if past me was too little, I wouldn't remember (and my parents wouldn't listen). Me as a 9 year old, I probably wouldn't listen to some stranger or some grown up I didn't know as far as advice. And no one in my family would believe that I was me if I went THAT far back. Now, if I visited 24 year old me, perhaps.
If I went back to the past, let;s say 1960's, my parents wouldn't believe me... maybe I wouldn't want to mess around too much with advice (though I doubt they'd take it... they don't really listen)... I don't think I'd want to know THAT much about my direct family, say, my grandparents when they were young... Maybe I'd want to meet my great-grandfather as an old guy; he was supposedly pretty cool when he was older. I had a great great grandfather who was kinda cool, but I probably wouldn't want to go back in time that far, or probably not at the end of his life.
If it was the past, I probably wouldn't want to go any further than 90 years ago.
I'd probably like to go 100 years in the future, if I was guaranteed a trip back. That'd be a "grand scheme" type thing. Now if I was guaranteed two trips either way, or if I could control it... I'd probably only do the vast future of mankind as an alternative... more importantly, I'd probably like going a year or two into the future. Learn several winning lotto numbers, bring them back. At least set myself up nicely.
I would do neither.
What if the time machine malfunctions and you can not get back so you are stuck in the time you chose, or it goes further in the past or future than you wanted then you are stuck there?
If the time machine is big enough you could possibly stop a war from happening.
What if multiple people go back and or forward in time?
With multiple people time traveling what if you stop something bad sooner than it would have been stopped in the future but someone else or multiple people did something that caused what you stopped to never had happen to begin with?
What if best friends time traveled seperately and in one they never meet and in the other they do meet and become best friends as they are today?
What if spouses time traveled separately and in one they never meet and in the other they do meet and have the kids at the same time as they were born?
Lets take the spouse thing a step further. What if a third person caused them to meet a year earlier or a year later?
Could multiple people cause clitches in someone elses timeline regardless if they went back in time, went forward in time or did not time travel at all?
The world is full of interesting people that I would love to meet. Those that made important discoveries, changed our current lives and without whom we would not be where we are nowadays.
From the discoveries of the New World to the penicillin, from Marco Polo to the Incas and from a million others to another million of those anonymous inventors we don't even remember the names but use their discoveries every day.
Yes, going back in time has been a dream of mine since I read my first book on history.
I don't care at all going into the future. I see every day how humanity destroys the planet at an alarming rate. I don't need to see the total destruction of it and how elephants and other animals and flora will been wiped out by mankind and its constant quest for more greed and oppression.
i chose past because i have already basically decided where humanity is heading and i dont want to be proven right and i dont want to live to see humanity like in the movie walee and if humanity doesn't stop soon then the sad truth is that that is what we will be like. also if we had to either go to the past or future but you can not return then i would chose past and bring the tech that would alow for super thin oled tvs and smatphones and 4g lte and i would create the world how it was ment to be and we would avoid the grim lazy future of humanity :) XD
why do so many people care about the past? who cares about the past man? I want to find out if i end up a hobo, or if i end up landing my dream job. i'd probably go 10 years into the future. i'll probably have a kid by then. then again, the only reason i'd go in the past is to fix a mistake i made. for instance, i would love to retake that exam i got a 78.5 on. considering that i'd know all the questions, it would be easy peasy. also, i may not like what i see in my future. i may change my mind and say i'd go to the past. i don't really want to know my future, because who wants to know they'll be stuck in their part-time job for the rest of their life?
Past because I will never have children and grandchildren, and it will probably be illegal to be a straight White male in the future. And I love animals and history. I would take several trips into different past time periods. One would be to see the dinosaurs. Another would be to see biblical figures. Another would be to see the United States in its early untarnished form. Yet another would be to see famous people from the 19th and 20th centuries. Yet another would be to visit my young self and warn myself of the stupid things I was planning to do, and give myself a head start on the right ways of acting.
Past is safer. Know what's there. Know whether you like it, and what of it you like, and you CAN gain new knowledge too, just as you can with the future. In fact, you can gain knowledge more relevant to your present self because you get the benefit of hindsight at it's most pure, in its most literal sense.
I don't know whether we're talking going to the past/future and then coming back to the present, or staying there. Regardless however, the individual making the journey will remain their present selves. You don't get younger or older, you might see your younger or older self, but it's the present you making the journey, so whatever knowledge you gain from re-visiting the past will be relevant to your present self.
Also, Street Sharks.
Honestly neither. If you go back in time you can mess things up. Even if you try to fix something you did it may have repercussions that are worse. Same thing with going to the future you might not like what you see. I’m happy where I’m at because at least I have control of things in the present.
Yes.
Well, I can't visit my grandchildren, I'd have to have children, first! Who knows if THAT'S ever gonna happen? It's looking less and less promising every day! But I WOULD like to go se what the future's gonna look like.
I'd love to go back into the past and re-live the `60's again and scoop up all the great psychedelic records we had back then that I never knew about until a few decades ago!! I might have 54,000 records by the time I came back!! (Instead of the 52,000 I have, now.) I might also try to get mom & dad NOT to have any other kids because those 3 turned out to be raging assholes!!!
As for the lottery win, you could go either way to win that. Go into next week and find out the winner and come back and play that.
I'm really conflicted.
The past would be great if we're talking about the times without electronics, where people could not track you easily and the government did not own nor keep track of all the land. Then I could make my own house on a piece of land anywhere I wanted. Life was simple back then. Not saying it wasn't difficult, but it was more about prioritizing your essentials rather than your luxuries. It just so happens that the essentials are also luxuries to me.
The future would be cool, because of technological advancements. We would live longer, and the possibilites for everything would be ridiculous.
I think I'm leaning slightly more towards the past if I can take my current knowledge with me. The future would not give much freedom.
I'd go 1000 years to the future where I'd gather knowledge on how to cure disease like cancer or HIV, I'd get all the information on the stock market, the lottery numbers for the entire world, sports almanacs, all the patents filed for the entire milenium, etc. After this I'd come back to 2019 to gather unimaginable wealth with which I'd create a company that would make weapons of the future. With these weapons I'd go back 1000 years into the past to the year 1019 and take over the world, the entire world. All of it would be a single country under one rule. I'd eradicate religion, wars, hunger, diseases, and over night advance science with all the best inventions from the year 3019 in the year 1019.
Hopefully in the 3019 I'd find some kind of pill that would stop my cells from aging so I could live for at least 1000 years to make sure no one messes with my plan of creating a united planet. After all of this was done I'd go into space and explore new galaxies, where I'd gather even more knowledge thanks to which I'd advance humanity by milenia. Create a federation of planets, etc.
I'd get all of this done with the help of really advanced AI robots that whould have the ability to replicate, etc. Skip fossil fuels alltogether and go straight to green energy, turn the Sahara into one big solar plant that would be enough to power the entire worlds for free. All manual labour would be done by robots, the only thing I would force all humans to do is to go to school for as long as they manage to get a doctorates degree in the feild of their choosing. No one would have to work if they didn't want to. The purpose of life would be to live and to advance oneself and humanity alltogether.
I’d fix things from my past to create a better future. Also, there are pieces of my past I’d LOVE to revisit. My dad passed when I was 8yrs old & I’d cherish every day and every sec if I could with the exception of knowing everything I know now. That’s the only way I’d go back.
As much as I love history. I am too dependent on modern conveniences and necessities. You know, potable water, flush toilets, medicine, etc.
And there is an interesting risk with traveling to the past. You could be carrying a bacteria or virus that is harmless to people now but could be deadly to someone back then. We have evolved defenses along the way to a lot of things. The history you change could be by starting a terrible plague.
while it would be cool to visit historic events or go in the past for a more personal need, i would rather visit the future... to see what we are all struggling for, see if it works out would be a good boost in morale and also not much chance of us doing something stupid to screw up our own timeline or create a whole new timeline and never be able to return to the life we once had (should that be an option)
As long as I get to do different things instead of just observing, the past is my choice. I am always going to get to the future since it will eventually be the destination. How many times I get to visit the past and what happens if I do visit (changes, new future, or truly just visiting and observing) is crucial.
Sorely tempted to go back to the past, and take a few known winning lottery tickets with me. That would provide some comfort of course.
But I'm more interested in the unknown and curious to see where this extraordinary evolution of people and technology will take us.
So, in my case, curiosity wins over greed...
If I could go back to the past I'd try to change it so that my parents would never have met, marry or conceive me, and if that results in an alternate timeline or reality as a consequence then so be it. Maybe I'll just live in the late 70s, the 80s, and re-live the 90s and the 2000s instead, i don't know.
The future. For one, because I'm way too curious not to find out what new discoveries there will be, but also because no matter how much you try to romantisize any given past era, you can't even imagine how much worse humanity was off, the further you go back in time. I mean, you can love 50s music and fashion and what not, but if you're black, that's not gonna help you as a visitor from the future.
There is a lot about time that we don't understand.
I think it's not impossible that we may be able to time travel to the past someday since it happened, and maybe it's still there somehow. But I don't think we will ever be able to travel to the future because it hasn't happened yet.
But then there is that puzzling question... what happens if you travel back in time and commit suicide on the younger you? How could that be? Man that one is a mind blower!
The future would be amazing. Id love to go in that direction. But the future is sort of unpredictable. I could be teleporting 1 million years and earth doesn’t even exist or all humans are wiped clean
So I guess the past
I’d go back to the time of the religious dates and see if all of that stuff is true or not
Anything else would be a waste lol that’s the THE question everyone has
—> but for leisure id jump in during the 60’s
The future looks pretty bleak from what I sense. Total surveillance. Thought police. Being guilty until proved innocent, and being expendable.
If you fart, even quietly, it will be recorded in your second by second personal data file by the world government.
Take me back to the post WW2 days! seems the best time! Most people pulling together. Not the greed of the 21st century!
You never fart quietly JJ 😂😘
Typical conspiracy theory rhetoric that Alt Right crybabies like you spew these days whining because you can't be bigoted anymore without backlash and men can't harass women without consequences, of course you'd want to go back to the WW2 era when racism was at it's peak gays were in the closet and women were second class citizens which self hating Alt Right women like you prefer (you probably really want to visit the pre WW2 days before Hitler and your Nazi heroes were brought down).
You make some very good points , I am glad I'm not a 20 something now !! " Being guilty until proved innocent, and being expendable. "... already happens to mainly men !!
@FatherJack Oh please no one is guilty until proven innocent men are just finally being held accountable for their actions.
@ChantonsLamour Do you look forward to the latest technology of facial recognition AND them being able to detect people through walls? Do you not realise how we are tracked everywhere? Have you read and UNDERSTOOD the small print in Facebook?
I’d rather go to the past, to a couple different decades.
*1810’s-Beethoven’s time
*1930’s-1970’s
All those years for the music genre, dancing styles, dressing style, lifestyle, manners, courtesy, morals, cars.
30’s-40’s for swing dance
50’s- watching movies at the theater in your car
60’s - Flower Power/Hippies time zone
70’s-Disco
Nice!
I'd visit the past because maybe... just maybe i could help to change some current occurrences that are not too good for our world. Like influencing the creation of an alternative to all types of plastic or the prohibition of aerosol sprays. And you know try to prevent my life from being such a turd.
I wanted to say the past but that just delays the inevitable and carries with it it's own problems.
So the future. Hopefully the government hasn't completely taken our rights away by suppressing free speech, automating all our jobs, raising housing and rent costs, keeping wages stagnant, fighting off war with North Korea, Russia, China... Oh, and the earth possibly falling apart because of climate change. We are fucked people!
Future, obviously. I don't want to die from some disease, which has been already eradicated.
Past was less technologically advanced. Therefore I don't want to go there.
I want to go to time, when I can leave body behind and exist in machine or something like that. To times, when we have cities on the Moon, Mars declared independence and Venus is about to do the same, Jovian system is already powerhouse in region and we have send probes to another star systems.
I've born too early.
Neither, going to the past you would risk changing major events, while going to the future could mess you up psychologically. Not to mention diseases, if you brought any sickness to the past you could kill everyone, because they don't have a cure or the technology to find it. If you go to the future you could potentially die from illnesses that your body isn't built to fight.
But there's a million different life routes you can take when your born but you still take risks... What I mean is... You don't wanna go back to the start now because of fear of messing up... But imagine when you was actually born 17yrs ago... There could of been a future you that went back in time without you realising.. that didn't make you scared to make any life decisions did it?
So what difference would it make?
Maybe a slightly different outcome?
So what? We all gotta risks... Your gonna choose a path from now to your future which is also a unknown path... But your not scared of doing that are you?
It's not like every baby that's born ends up with a shitty life in the future anyway... Hardly any do... It's not a huge risk in my opinion
I won't allow my affection for the TV Show "Outlander" convince me that the past would be the best visit... BUT I doubt the future of Earth would be able to sustain its high population which would mean I would potentially suffer during either time...
How about I just enjoy what I have now? Don't pressure me into 2 decisions lolol.
There's s few things I'd undo if I could, if I knew those would be the only things thst changed.
There's a very important person in my life that I met in a very unlikely way, and if anything at all changed in my past I never would have met her, so for that reason alone I'd probably keep everything the same.
The future, the past is the past, and how do I know I would be changing the past? Maybe if I go back and supposedly change it, I would be doing exactly what was happening all along, even if I get to set it out off course.
Their wouldn't be any way to predict the path of the future events to come (it could be worst, or better), and the new reality created by modifying the future will have it's own problems, so... I rather go to the future, and learn from it.
This is a tough question. There are periods of time in the past I would like to visit but wouldn't want to change anything. Would I go just as an observer? In the future, there wouldn't be that problem. I think I will settle on future because we can study the past, we really can't study the future and it would be interesting to see what predictions come true or how off we end up being.
I'd like to know if i would end up in a relationship with this girl that i like :)
Past for sure!
I'd use the mistakes I made, and tell myself what not to do and see how it affects myself in the present: like not date my exes, study harder, treasure and spend more time with my parents, invest in a few stocks... things like that
I've watched enough shows to know you'll always regret going in the past!
He said forget the paradox stuff
@somerandomguy197 i'm aware
I love that scene of the show. Eobard's frustration when he realises he's forced to help Barry.
Have you seen Season 5 yet?
@Deathraider Nah I've been lazy on the show since season 4 because I just stopped being interested in it
I'd rather stay in the present... The past is past, what had happened already happened and made us the people we are now... The future is what is destined to be...
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The future. I want to know if my life gets better🤔
Yeah, I’d go back in the past and try to instill some wisdom into my younger self and try to be more aware of what my dog Abi was doing so maybe I could prevented her death.
I would go to the past. To the origins of every myth and religion. To the end of the dinosaurs, etc. I would bring a hi-def camera, lots of weapons and body armor, too - I'm not stupid XD
Future. I don't want to risk to be confused with a witch while traveling by my dearest Spanish inquisition, neither get the black plague or any disease in the past that is erradicated nowadays.
I have a belief you can not change the past. Even if you travel back in time, something will be there to make sure the past will do what it did. Not a mysterious force, but just there's always a block to stop you getting somewhere.
I can't pick not enough information how old am I.
I would go to the Past and have my children again.
10 years before so I could prepare better and give them a better life and had more money so I could spend more time with them.
It depends on how long i'd be there for if you just mean a quick visit I'd want to go to the future to see what it's like, but if you mean living there for an extended period of time I'd go to the past easily. I'd get to relive the best decade ever the 90s before millennials grew up and ruined music.
The past. Going back in time you can reshape your future whereas going into the future, you’ve got to live with what you’ve got.
Neither of them. I just want to be in the present.
Ah, you beat me to it.
@grashopper That's one of my biggest problem. I either get stuck at my past or thinking about or fiction the future.
The future! I already know what happens in the past. Also assuming at some point you return to you original time. you could still win the lottery because you've already seen the winning numbers in the future.
The future will always happen. If you go to the past, you can affect the present and the future. You can’t do that if you go to the future.
Past, so I can go fix all mistakes and do things differently, make better choices (like getting charged and arrested)
By doing that you would change your life but could change other peoples lives as well
I’m kind of unsure of which one I would rather do more since I would like to do both.
I’d like to go into the future for technology reasons.
If I go too far back in time, I would be a slave thanks to you... beautiful CAUCASIANS and your evil ancestors who kept my ancestors in captivity... so I guess the future is for me
Or what if you changed it all.
Or you could of stayed in Aferica and never come to the USA AND We would all be a better and happier place.
As a whie American im sick abd tired of hearing about the big badd white man is keeping the black man down.
The reason 80% of prisoners
Are black is because there criminals. White people dont for the most part ride around smoking blunts and driving a motor vehicle. Racist are mostly black from the ones i have met and gesrd speak .
As a white girl i releate to people as just people
Blacks say that whie girl
That white dude when they begin a sentence which is the true definition of raciest.
In closing what happened in the slavery times and not letting blacks in certain places WAS WRONG.
But enough is enough Thats history and if the black society could leave it as just that History . We may all do better as a society.
I would go back in time and buy bitcoins for days before it sky rocketed to what it was and is now🤣🤣
I would love to go back in the past, however there are to many buts going into the past. Going into the future would be a little scary but a much better deal
The past would be cool to visit, and although it's not the same, we can read about most of it. However, the future is unforseen
Don't wanna fuck things up in the past, so I'd like to go into the future and read the completed One Piece series
Back to the future (great movie lol)
Seriously I would really like to see if there will be flying cars, robots and if humanity will have found the cure for cancer, if extra-terrestrial exist
Kind of scared that humans won't be around in the future. But I don't see much of a choice in going back to the past.
The future it is.
Past is done I rather explore the future. How far mankind has advanced, all the technological marvels. It'll be exciting and intriguing to see how future unfolded.
I'm a POC so history and I dont have the best relationtionship. Into the future it is!
My future is bleak, empty and pointless, so I’d go back to the past and try and fix my future
i know the feeling
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