• @[email protected]
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    527 days ago

    Round trip that can make changes? Probably a few hundred or even thousand years ago, so I could give them modern technology, information about climate change, try to educate people on social issues, etc

    What tech would you take back if you could though?

    • moonlight
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      427 days ago

      I haven’t really thought through the details.

      It would probably take decades to prepare, and to figure out what the best approach would be.

      It also depends on how much I could bring back.

      If it’s just me and what I can carry, I think I would just bring a few things to demonstrate the tech. Maybe a high power flashlight and solar charger. The important part would be a detailed guide on how to re-enginer everything we have today, as well as the science behind it. Really, I think scientific knowledge would be the most impactful.

      If this was a huge operation with near infinite resources, I would send back a giant self sustaining compound with a general purpose factory. I think it would probably be possible to sustain a roughly 60s level of technology indefinitely on a small scale until the rest of the world caught up

      • skulblaka
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        426 days ago

        Any further back than 2 or 300 years and you would definitely, 100% guaranteed be burned as a witch upon arrival.

        • moonlight
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          125 days ago

          True, I wouldn’t want to get Galileo’d, and I would definitely want to stay away from Salem, haha. I think ~1750 would probably be a good time. Someone like Euler would take it seriously.