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I've been thinking a bit about time travel today, and whilst I think overall travelling in time would be problematic (losing all narative structure to your life, requiring way too many tenses to keep track of and leading to constant jetlag) I think there are some things it could be really useful for.
Most useful would be the ability to transport objects in time - imagine getting home from work, putting a roast in the oven and setting it to start cooking 3 hours ago. Then making up an extra plate of food and transporting it to tomorrow's lunchtime so you can eat it freshly cooked and still hot. Food storage would also be revolutionised. Instead of trying to keep things fresh you just reach into the past to grab it when it actually was fresh! Leftovers would remain freshly cooked, you could have vine ripened summer tomatoes in the middle of winter and your milk would last however long you needed it to.
Interesting priority, I think I would use it to drastically change the course of my life in my younger years.
I don't believe in the theories that allow for changes, so if I went back with that intention I failed.
Just imagine the stock market reverberations, people travelling to get insider trading info to buy or sell shares
And competitive board games would become obsolete unless you vow to not travel to the future ( and what you describe is two way travel, to the past and back to the present , thus t the future is possible )
but I do love your ideas
All of those things end up in a Bill and Ted time travel showdown where they win and revolutionise the world with the power of their music. We will all be excellent and party on.
Emmet Brown didn't revolutionalise anything ๐คทโโ๏ธ
He was no match for Wyld Stallyns
Love it. Sign me up.