What would you bring with you? what technologies would you try to teach everyone?
2007-02-12 18:19:14 · 13 answers · asked by Mighty Opinions 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
There is a very famous book called "The way things work" it details how to do everything from how to make a telephone to how to make gasoline. How to make an internal combustion engine etc. all you need.
If you are really interested in this idea read Mark Twains "A Conneticut Yankee in King Arthurs Court" he does just this in it. Nothing like the stupid Danny Kaye movie.
2007-02-12 18:29:45 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Have you read Connecticut Yankee? This is an interesting question. I have thought about asking one similar. My question would have been- If you found yourself suddenly 500 years back in time (say Europe) without any planning on your part for the unexpected trip, without even modern clothes on, do you think you could, with all your superior technology, none of which you brought with you, teach the locals anything? Keep in mind that the people are very superstitious and might want to make a bonfire out of you.
2007-02-13 03:21:38 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I'd take some antibiotics with me. I would definitely get vaccinated for plague, rabies, small pox, and dozens of other crazy diseases that few people get anymore. I would use my knowledge of modern technology to pass myself off as a magician or something. Or better yet, I'd make a bunch of mathematics, physics, and philosophy texts and go down in history as the greatest thinker ever. Take that Euler, Gauss, Newton, Einstein, Descartes, Kant, and all you other chumps... ;)
2007-02-13 02:33:01 · answer #3 · answered by Link 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Firstly I wouldn't take anything back because it would effect the timeline, changing the future who knows who much.
But if we were to play the hypothetical game of if there was nothing that could change now, then I would take Penicilin back. A way to treat almost any disease of the time would be akin to magic, and you could name your price the royalty of the day would pay it. You could have anything that you wanted from that time like gold, jewels, exotic spices, land, kingdoms, etc. You would be the richest person on the planet, stuff bill gates.
Hope this helps.
2007-02-13 02:37:49 · answer #4 · answered by Arthur N 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I would not bring anything with me from our time. Anything we brought back would change our current time, and who know's HOW it will be changed.
Thant's the problem with the idea of time travel, you would have to be way too careful not to change anything.
Now learning from them is another story in itself. I have a few hobbies that I could learn a great deal about from these people.
2007-02-13 02:59:15 · answer #5 · answered by Big Cory 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think it would be something simple, like electricity, paper-making, and printing presses; education might have occurred much earlier had books been available to the masses rather than only to the wealthy.
2007-02-13 02:29:58 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would take duct tape, because I think it would be funny to take something that is an everyday item and see how they would react. I could tape some random items together, and then hide and watch what happens.
2007-02-13 02:25:12 · answer #7 · answered by hol 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nothing. Any technology I had would be interpreted as witchcraft and I would be hanged.
2007-02-13 04:28:17 · answer #8 · answered by Voodoid 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Perhaps we have more to learn from them. We are more lost than successfully advanced, as human beings. Can anyone doubt it anymore?
2007-02-13 02:52:46 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
tell them about the outhouse instead of s h i tting in a bowl or in the corner on the stairwell of their castle.
2007-02-13 02:28:10 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋