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A time traveller comes back from 50 years in the future. You have 3 hours with them. What do you do? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 10 months ago by Danterious@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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The time traveller is able to travel backward and forward through time (max forward is 2074) and they can only transport things that can fit in a small backpack.
You can choose when the 3 hours begin but it has to be in 2024 and once it has begun the timer can't be reset or stopped.
They will answer to the best of their ability but imagine this is a random person from 2074.

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[–] Vanth@reddthat.com 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I would ask them to bring me newspapers or hard drive with even more news/data on sports and stocks. Is there ever any other answer?

I would also ask them to keep to their personal bubble because they likely have germs I have no immunity to and vice versa. We don't need covid-2074 decimating the present day.

[–] Gnorv@feddit.de 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

In a non capitalistic future there would be other answers...

[–] Vanth@reddthat.com 3 points 10 months ago

In which case the newspapers brought back would tell me that and I could strategize for what sort of non-capitalist future it is.

Headed towards a Star Trekkian post-scarcity economy? Or a post-doomsday device anarchist hellscape? Anything in between? I would still like to know.