Assuming you can't change the past, only make observations, I'd go back in time to the Great Library of Alexandria, find some important works of literature that were subsequently lost, and make copies of them. If I made good copies I could sell them for a fortune 😀, but more importantly it would add to the sum of human knowledge and experience that we can access today.
I'd go forward in time, say, 200 years, and hope for the best. Even if it turned out not to be a very nice place, the history of the 21st and 22nd centuries ought to make interesting reading.
I often wondered what would happen if someone went back to about 1950 and started writing all the Beatles Songs. If they did the songs well I am still not sure the people of the time would even enjoy them...
Now once the Beatles come along... what would they write since their songs had already been written...
Hmmmm.
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I would (controversially perhaps) go back to the 1770s and do something to make ensure that we won the War of Independance (of course it would then be called something else) - America would be much better off as one of our colonies!
I'd like to go forward so that I could read my own obituary. If it wasn't too comlimentary (which it probably woulnd't be if one of my American friends wrote it!) I could then try to live a better life.
Originally posted by AcolyteWould you jump in front of Hypatia when the forces of holiness broke out the abalone shells?
Assuming you can't change the past, only make observations, I'd go back in time to the Great Library of Alexandria, find some important works of literature that were subsequently lost, and make copies of them. If I made good copies I could sell them for a fortune 😀, but more importantly it would add to the sum of human knowledge and experience that we ca ...[text shortened]... a very nice place, the history of the 21st and 22nd centuries ought to make interesting reading.