A time traveller comes back from 50 years in the future. You have 3 hours with them. What do you do?

cross-posted from: lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/12770326

Rules:

  1. The time traveller is able to travel backward and forward through time (max forward is 2074) and they can only transport things that can fit in a small backpack.
  2. You can choose when the 3 hours begin but it has to be in 2024 and once it has begun the timer can’t be reset or stopped.
  3. They will answer to the best of their ability but imagine this is a random person from 2074.
afraid_of_zombies,

Point out that I have no immunities to Covid-74 then I assume fall on the ground with bleeding eyes.

skybreaker, (edited )
@skybreaker@lemmy.world avatar

First, determine the state of the planet 50 years from now. This will largely dictate my next set of questions.

Is the earth on fire? Is there rampant suffering? What was the biggest catastrophe to mankind in that time?

Did humanity actually do something to help the earth? Once I learn this, I can invest in that thing to simultaneously push that technology forward and benefit from it myself.

Is any single person held responsible for bad things that have happened? Unlikely, but if so, I would work on assassinating that person.

Resol,
@Resol@lemmy.world avatar

Ask if an episode of Inanimate Insanity actually released on December 37, 2074. And no, I did not write that incorrectly by mistake. I actually meant to say December Thirty-Seventh.

Noodle07,

Ask for the most recent version of dwarf fortress

dutchkimble,

Ask them to get a sports almanac back, and new seasons of shows I’m waiting for, and perhaps a copy of GTA6 if it’s out by 2074

Kolanaki,
@Kolanaki@yiffit.net avatar

I don’t even wanna know how fucked up shit will be 50 years from now.

someguy3, (edited )

I say the cliche which stocks to invest in. They will know which companies are big at various times. Lotto numbers if they can get that. Blah blah blah.

After that I’m not sure I want to know the other things. It takes the fun out of life.

I mean there are things that you have to worry about like personal safety. I I doubt there will be another World War so I won’t have to worry about the draft or death. Maybe major disasters so I won’t be there. Civil unrest but I’m fortunate enough to live in Canada.

A_Random_Idiot,

Ask if they come from a utopia world, a shittier version of this world, or a post apocalypse world.

if its anything but a utopia world, ask who we have to get rid of to push us towards the utopia world.

Schlomocucumber,
@Schlomocucumber@lemmy.world avatar

if when its anything but a utopia world, ask who we have to get rid of to push us towards the utopia world.

stoy,

Please go to next week and bring me the winning lottery numbers, then please go to next year and bring me a newspaper with the stock market records, then go ten years in the future and bring me a map of what areas are being developed for housing.

otter,

Try to not trade our current infective diseases with whatever future disease they might have carried back

Menagerie,

Offer them a hug. 2074 sounds like a scary time to be alive.

AceFuzzLord,
  1. Ask if nuclear war has occured.
  2. If they can go back to their time and grab things to bring something back, I’d have them bring back (assuming they still have them) a USB portable hard drive (or something similar) that has many petabytes with of data (assuming it exists).
  3. Ask if they wanna play games because I don’t know what else to do with a time traveler.
RubberElectrons,
@RubberElectrons@lemmy.world avatar

Ask whether we got fusion working. Whether we did or didn’t, how do we start attacking our CO2 problem in a way that would minimally disrupt the traveler’s future?

They’ve had time and history to look at for the key knobs and levers to adjust that would solve a lot of our issues (while for sure creating new ones).

Anticorp,
  1. Kill the time traveler
  2. Acquire his time machine
  3. Whatever I want
ilinamorato,

Kill? No no no no.

“Hey, time traveler. Do you live in a sucky future?”

  • “No, not really sucky.” “Ok then, if you go back to your time and send the machine back to me, I will put my entire fortune into a single bank account with your name on it, in any country and bank in the entire world you think is best. I will then take a few brief trips of my own and send the machine back to you. Deal?”
  • “Yes, future is the most sucky.” “Would you prefer to stay here, then, and be a god among men, while I take a joyride?”
bunkyprewster,

When we go back in time, we worry about changing the past. But we expect this person from the future to tell us all the stuff so we can fuck around with (for them) things that already happened.

sanguinepar,
@sanguinepar@lemmy.world avatar

True, but the consequences of anything we do will already have happened for them anyway.

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