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?
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.
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.
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.
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