If you could time travel only once, what time period would you go too?? Past or Future??

Question

Think about it this way. Going to the past means you will have intimate knowledge of event in the future. This will either make you a reknowned genius and prophet or a Martyr!!

Going to the future means you might get to enjoy things like flying cars, and a world without Dubya!! You may also end up somewhere like the matrix...

Has anyone ever read dicken's book the Time Machine....Simply Genius for his time to write that work!!

Sorry it was H.G. Wells...I am not sure what I was thinking..it has been 10+ years since I picked that book up...I just rememeber the idea and getting lost in the story!!!

Sorry about the JC, it is a habit I get in typing fast that I need to break!!

Answer 1

The future, definitely. I would want to go to a time when the human race had matured more, not just technologically but emotionally and politically as well. One could make some sweet stock market/sports bets/lottery killings by going to the past, but you'd also be going to a time when things weren't quite as good as they are now. Fewer civil rights (especially for minorities), most things are more expensive as a percentage of your income, fewer products on the market, many things we take for granted today hadn't even been invented yet, less scientific knowledge, fewer opportunities. I honestly believe that the future will be better in all those respects. Heck, we may even have conquered disease and aging at some point.

And actually, you could make a killing travelling into the future too. Just dump your savings into a stock market index mutual fund, and in a few centuries you will be a VERY rich person.

But just a note of caution to Event Horizon (a previous answerer): in 100 billion years, you'll materialize into empty space. That's because Earth will no longer exist, and the sun will be a small, dimly-glowing cinder. Check your stellar timelines. :-)

Answer 2

I don't understand the real thing.. I could only imagine that if you travel through time, now im 17, if i go to the past, I'd be pretty sure im not 17 but rather at age lower than 17. It could be 6 or 3, or maybe, I'm not yet existing. If I travel past, and considering it could be more than 17 years passed, I would have be gone... Same is as true as in the future, I'd be older, and I won't be able to enjoy the things teenagers do. I'm pretty confused with these kind of theories about time traveling. I bet this could not be true even if it's already year 59999 or more. Anyways, that book you're talking.. you believe too much.

Answer 3

I don't know where I would travel. The past isn't as romantic as it seems, it was dirty and hygiene was bad up until the 20th century. And during that century, war became monstrous and hard economic times hit worlwide during the depression. Even if I did travel to the past, I wouldn't want to change anything because even the smallest detail would alter my future. If I were to go to the future, who knows what I could expect. Maybe there'll be a war that causes people to live underground or moral standards are so down that prostituting is the most respectable job out there for women.

Overall, I'd be too much of a wuss to really time travel.

Answer 4

I like the question. I was going to the past, but I feel now it was a decision based solely on greed and ego. Trying to beat the system by being omniscient.

But Libertarian opened my eyes a little to whet my curiosity of what a future time could hold based on what is the present now. I only see positives.

Besides can't go back to a time when there was no running water, and even forwarded a little more, I can't go back to black and white TV and have people be amazed at me when I told them what the next episode of Leave it to Beaver was going to be about.

Libertarian... that was deep. Kudos.

Answer 5

I would go to the past, preferably the 18th century. The reason why is because I love the way women dress back then. It's elegant and pretty. In addtion, women have high expectations for themselves, unlike some young girls today. Besides, you create your own future, so going to the past might change some bad events (ie. wars, famine, etc.) to better ones.

Answer 6

Past, to meet Gautama Buddha and learn the qualities of modesty and diligence in a civilization without technological distractions to possibly keep me from growing intellectually or spiritually.

If I go to the future, there won't be much left. "World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."

Answer 7

I would go to the past. I mean, to be able to meet some of the greatest minds and hear Beethoven play. Can't imagine topping that. Besides, the future may not exist when I arrive. We may have blown it up.

Answer 8

first of all, if the book u mentioned is the book that i m thinking about, than it wasn't' written by dickens, it was H.G. Wells.
and then if i have only one choice than i would love to go to the past. becoz, i wanna witness the gradual progress of human history and the nature. nothing can be better than this to understand where are we heading for. and as i hate to read history books, becoz of their shear volume, what can be a better way to know history.
and i just hate future. our future is just bleak. i always repent of my being a part of this last three decades. if i had my just one wish fulfilled than i would ask for a rebirth in the 50s. the age of a bipolar political world. the age of USSR. the age of hippies.

Answer 9

I'd go to the past. We create our own future anyway, so visiting it would simply be visiting of an infinite number of future possibilities, and I wouldn't want what I saw to colour any of my present choices.

Answer 10

I would go back to pioneer times and live in Walnut Grove with Charles, Caroline, Laura, Mary, Carrie, Albert, and Grace.....in the Little House on the Prairie.