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If you could travel either 10 years, 100 years, or 1000 years into the future (and never come back), which one would you choose?

8 years ago by 8mm with 14 comments

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  • LacquerCritic (edited 8 years ago)
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    10 years because I'm not really that brave and I've heard women back in the day didn't have it so great. I like computers and being able to write with authors around the world with ease and videos and high speed internet and being able to vote and not diving into the middle of World War I. And the year 1000-ish sounds pretty dicey to me, although I admit to just going by Wikipedia on that one (I also like Wikipedia).

    Uh. Scratch the above. I would travel 10 years into the future because by a 100 years I'll probably be an antiquated old kook with horrifically backwards ideas about humanity as a whole. Much like how we look back at lead cosmetics and mercury-filled hats with horror, the people 100 years from now will probably gag as I talk about donating blood, taking artificial hormones that leach into our water systems, or some other massive faux pas my generation is committing. A 1000 years from now I'd probably be put in a cage since there's no one around who can speak 2000-era English any longer!

    • Qukatt
      +7

      cough into the future cough

      • LacquerCritic
        +6

        I am genuinely trying to find some reason that I entirely misread that question, but...I've got nothing. Thank you for being so graceful though.

        • Qukatt
          +7

          Just blame it on lack of sleep like I do ;)

  • geoleo
    +6

    1000. The further the better, and I want to have my mind blown.

    • 8mm
      +6

      What if you end up in a nuclear wasteland with no way back? Ooops

      • rhingo
        +4

        Someone been playing too much Fallout 4 ;)

  • spaceghoti
    +5

    1000 years. There's no way they're going to develop flying cars within the next hundred years, and I was promised flying cars by the time I reached middle age! I am deeply disappointed.

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  • SuperCyan
    +4

    I'd have to pick 100 to save pain and risk.

    If I went forward 10 years, I think it would just be sad. It'd be 10 less years with my family. My parents aren't young, and it'd kill me to wake up and see them approaching 70. My siblings would be older, their kids wouldn't even know who I am. At the same time, much wouldn't be different. I'd be completely fucked over, because I'd have no way of really going to college. I'd be entering the workforce 10 years late, and my life track could get completely derailed. Most people would have forgotten about me. My friends wouldn't want to see me, because they'd be 27 and wouldn't want to hang out with a 17 year old (they might try, but it would just be too difficult). The girl I'm talking to now will probably be married with kids, but whatever. Technology wouldn't have changed much. There's no breakthroughs projected for the next 10 years. My mind won't be blown. Really, it's a bunch of bullshit for no gain.

    1,000 years would just be too far. Sure, we could be really advanced, but we might be too far for me. Look back 1,000 years. Our language was so different back then, that it'd be almost impossible to communicate with someone from there. Even if we had he ability to instantly translate and understand each other, culture would be entirely different. With the level of knowledge we'd have by then, social norms would be totally different. My colloquial terms and everyday phrases wouldn't carry over. I'd have to go through school all over again, because our understanding of the universe would be so augmented, that my current education might be totally wrong. I'd be the lowest rung on the social ladder, with no real way of assimilating. Also, with the way global warming is going, I might be stuck down here with just Wall-E to talk to. Either that, or a nuclear holocaust would have me walking into a Fallout type scenario.

    If I go 100 years into the future, I'll be comfortable with the certainty that most of the people I knew have passed on. I won't have to watch them age as I stay young. I won't have to attend any funerals. I won't have to live with that sort of grief. At the same time, I could still communicate with people, catch up on advances quickly, and live a normal life. However, things won't be so advanced that I couldn't fathom them. I wouldn't have to go through the education system again. I would still fit in with most of the world, and continue on. It's really the only way I could really see myself choosing.

  • Appaloosa
    +4

    I'd go for 100 years. Not so far out in the future that I couldn't communicate with anyone. At 1,000 years you'll probably be thrown into a zoo as one of the last vestiges of organic humanity. Pretty sure we'll all be Big Dogs by that time!

  • ttubravesrock
    +4

    100 years.

    I don't want to have to see everyone I know and love be 10 years older. Also, I don't think much would change in 10 years.

    I think 1000 years would be far to much change for me to be able to comprehend. Imagine someone from 1016 being transported today.

    100 years would be in the 'Goldilocks Zone' for most people. The amount of change would not be overwhelming, but instead would be fascinating.

    One caveat in favor of the 10 year argument is that I could invest some money, disappear for 10 years, and still be able to pass as myself without too much questioning to collect that money.

  • jenjen1352
    +3

    1,000 years. I want to see what happens.