One interesting and potentially crazy fact about time travel is that according to some interpretations of quantum mechanics, it may be possible to “travel” through time by moving through higher dimensions of space. In this view, time itself is a dimension, just like length, width, and height, and it may be possible to “move” through […]
People Break Down What They Would Search If Their Phone Could Look 5 Years In The Future
They say if you had tomorrow’s newspaper, you’d be a rich man.
But what about a newspaper from a time far beyond tomorrow? Nothing crazy like the year 2080 or some science fiction-style scenario, but just a few years.
Perhaps you’d make some bets, plan for disaster, or even alter your value system.
Redditor beentothefuture recently prompted folks with a poll on the topic.
They asked:
“You can’t time travel, but your phone has the internet from 5 years in the future. What do you search for first?”
One person had three key concerns.
“Lottery numbers -> stock prices -> my name.”
“You may ask why my name but it’s very simple as I then can learn if I died until then or got caught for some sh** and are still in prison.” — [deleted]
This Redditor went a bit deeper with their scheme.
“I would start a blog on my pc and then switch to my phone to check if it now has updates from the future. If so, my future self could talk to my present self.”
“I could read about my mistakes and try to avoid them. If a post disappears, that would mean that I did it right.” — thezubek
And this Redditor went even deeper than that.
“I would check my mails and message Apps to find out how I’m doing in the future.”
“If the phone continuously updates, so that it always show the internet of in five years. Then I would probably look for scientific breakthroughs like fusion and also for catastrophes. Then I would start writing messages to myself like a diary so I can see them in the present.”
“And also in 2025 I would start copying the messages from then in 5 years and send them to myself so I can see the messages of the next ~100 years assuming I live that long.” — Barti666
And here’s someone who just wants to twist the knife.
“Nintendo Directs. Then I’ll make ‘predictions’ for a lot of things Nintendo will do, but I’ll phrase it in an increasingly implausible way. After a few Directs, people will hopefully catch on and start believing everything I say.”
“After five years (assuming I can’t look into the future again) I’ll start making random shit up and watch the internet argue about my predictions. Surely this can’t be real… but his track record is impeccable!” — TomAVulpis
This response harkened back to times this sort of thing was already considered.
“I’d try to be like Bill Murrays character by the end of Ground Hog day. Find out if there’s any needless deaths from preventable accidents that I may be able to change.”
“Obviously I’d have won the lotto too, this would give me plenty of resources and free time to become a local superhero” — Meglamore
This person had one very specific thing on the mind.
“Besides the obvious (lottery, election, myself, etc) I would want to see if opera made a comeback after the pandemic or if the virus was the final nail in the coffin of this art form, which has been slowly headed towards its demise for decades now.” — IoSonCalaf
Another Redditor had a list.
“queen elizabeth (if there were more searches available)”
“then probably see which countries still exist as they are now,”
“see how covid-19 played out”
“memes so I can make an accurate “this is a meme from the future”
“then see what are the biggest breakthroughs of science in the last 5 years, probably at least medicine and energy”
“also obviously lottery numbers or something” — uhrilahja
One person went full anthropologist.
“If I had unlimited searches I’d probably look up the Reddit frontpage first.”
“There’s a lot of information in there that would give a good general explanation about that timeperiod. And from there on I could search up anything that seems interesting while already having some context.” — juniperzz
Here we have a more personal outlook.
“Win the lotto but not enough to be super rich but enough to settle debts and get started. Also see if there are any major disasters I need to prepare for.”
“And check the obituaries to see if there are any family members I need to see more often/forgive” — neverstayhappy101
This Redditor took a more nuanced approach to “betting.”
“How long does it work for? If it is permanent, lottery numbers once or twice anymore and you would draw attention.then best tech developments and start ups to invest in.”
“Locate the brightest and smartest graduates to come and work for you and enough dirt on politicians to let you get away with what your planning.” — koorcevets
One person had entertainment on the brain.
“Outcome of sporting events so I can place some bets.”
“Also, I’d look up if my favorite music artists were still alive so if they were to die I could warn them. Wish I could have done this with Adam ‘MCA’ Yauch of the Beastie Boys” — TheA**OfSpock
Here we have an enterprising approach.
“The newest sience break throughs. So i can instead blow everyones minds with my genius” — aeris17471
This contribution was just bleak through and through.
“End of the Covid pandemic…only to find news articles on the 76th lockdown in 2025, and people still going on about not wearing masks… Q_Q” — Protohype93
One Redditor was tired of broken promises.
“Cure for type 1 diabetes. Doctors have been saying its five years away for awhile now.” — Surferbro
And plenty of people decided to have some fun with the prompt itself.
“The internet still exists in five years, so that’s my first worry assuaged…” — welshualegon
“when a youtuber posts so i can truly be first” — Ap_Legendary11
“How many more John Wick films have been made.” — IAmJohnny5ive
“Well, I went to Reddit and found this post. Hello from 2015!” — Refloni
“I’d create a reddit thread asking what people would search for if they had access to internet 5 years ahead of time. Mind blown …” — BradSainty
So in case you thought the lottery idea is where this conversation begins and ends, think again.
People apparently have all sorts of things they can’t help but wonder about.
People Explain Which Historical Events Seem Altered By A Time Traveler From The Future
Ever wonder about the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
Somebody throws a grenade at his car. It blows up behind him.
That’s the first incident of time travel, stopping the assassination.
Later, as he goes back, the driver realizes he’s on the same route where the grenade was thrown and they try to turn around.
The whole procession of cars stalls and a guy who just happened to be sitting there goes over and shoots the Archduke setting off the events that lead to the first World War.
Did a time traveler meddle then? Wouldn’t surprise us.
It turns out that there are quite a few historical events out there that seem stranger than fiction.
We heard about them after Redditor Heterozygoats asked the online community:
“What historical event 100% reads like a time traveler went back in time to alter history?”
“Basically, Poe writes about…”
“Edgar Allan Poe wrote about an event 40+ years in the future.”
“Basically, Poe writes about four people who are starving at sea, draw straws, and kill and eat the loser, cabin boy Richard Parker. 40 odd years later four people are adrift at sea in a lifeboat, one drinks seawater and goes into a coma.”
“When they draw straws for who will be eaten, the coma guy gets the short straw in a development that surprises no one. And so the three other men kill and eat the cabin boy. Richard Parker. Seriously.” ~ TuckerMouse
“There was a shipwreck…”
“There was a shipwreck in 1664, a shipwreck in 1785, and a shipwreck in 1820. Each had 1 survivor. Each survivor was named Hugh Wiliams.” ~ pm_me_genius
“The Fire Department and some clowns…”
“The Toronto Circus Riot of 1855.”
“The Fire Department and some clowns get into a disagreement at a whorehouse, and get into a punch-up. The clowns win, but the firemen return to the circus later and start attacking in revenge.”
“The firemen win the day but violence is stopped when the militia come in. The police do nothing, so the city fires all the police (and I mean everyone) and starts a new police force.” ~ splitdipless
“When Andrew Jackson’s assassin…”
“When Andrew Jackson’s assassin attempted to shoot him, both of his flintlock pistols misfired. Andrew Jackson had to be restrained after almost beating the assassin to death with his cane. The two flintlocks were examined after the incident and found to be in good condition.” ~TwoBearsHighFiving
“20,000 people could have died…”
“Cyanide Gas Attack Thwarted in Tokyo Subway.”
“20,000 people could have died but a worker found a burning gasbag in a toilet just before it mixed with another poisonous gas bag – just in time – and put them out. That was in Shinjuku station. I was in that station that day, and that person might have saved my life.” ~ Idkeepplaying
“It was so much happenstance…”
“Franz Ferdinand’s assassination. It was so much happenstance, shenanigans, and tomfoolery that it’s like a special achievement in a hitman game.” RigasTuring
“Survived both of the bombings…”
“Tsutomu Yamaguchi.”
“Survived both of the bombings at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Reads like a satirical time-traveler story where the protagonist screws up his dates.” ~ OlympusJCook
“The number of times…”
“The number of times we DIDN’T go to nuclear war because of a false positive of a launch. Honestly, Stanislav Petrov should have statues in every country.” ~ AustinJG
“Jack Ruby clearly was sent…”
“Jack Ruby clearly was sent to kill Lee Harvey Oswald so no one would ever discover it wasn’t him who killed Kennedy.” ~ possiblyhysterical
“Fidel Castro’s assassination attempts…”
“Fidel Castro’s assassination attempts being dodged is so unrealistic (really, he dodged about 600) that it feels like a time traveler went back and foiled every single one of them.” ~ AttentionSome
“If you read up on his life…”
“If you read up on his life, you’ll find there are so many times Adolf Hitler almost died, but somehow survived, that makes me think there was/is a time traveler war going on.”
“A faction trying to kill Hitler, because it’s Hitler, and a faction preventing his death because the guy who would replace him was even worse than Hitler.” ~ Lichruler
“The Germans spent a lot of time…”
“The Germans spent a lot of time and money developing a magnetic sea mine that probably would have significantly reduced England’s ability to stay in the war, except they dropped a single one of the mines accidentally on an English beach, and also failed to arm it so none of the booby traps were active and the British basically found out straight away how it worked and we’re able to cheaply build magnetic minesweepers.” ~ pezzz4525
“It wouldn’t be surprising…”
“It wouldn’t be surprising if Nancy Wake was a time traveler. She was just too damn good at special ops against the Nazis.” ~ doublestitch
“That time in the 1700s…”
“Battle of Karansebes.”
“That time in the 1700s when the Austrian army got confused, waged a huge battle against itself within its own lines, and lost an estimated several hundred to few thousand men (and a lot of equipment and money) in the process. They then retreated.”
“The Ottomans, whom they were originally intending to fight, showed up two days later.” ~ HyvalTheEmolga
“The last known kill…”
“The last known kill by bow and arrow in combat was actually during the battle of Dunkirk, 1940. Jack Churchill landed a well-placed arrow into a German soldier’s chest.”
“He also chose to carry bagpipes and a Scottish longsword.” ~ WasteNot2532
“The Russian writer…”
“The Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky was sentenced to death by firing squad and just as they were preparing the groups to be shot, a messenger came with a letter from the Tsar ‘forgiving’ them and the sentence was changed to prison labor.”
“He later went on to write some of the most influential novels of all time.” ~ smokeyman992
Whoa.
History is fascinating–and full of odd incidents like these, because life is crazy.
Just think—you’ll be the star of your next dinner party as soon as you whip these facts out.
So why don’t you?
You’ll be the envy of everyone!
When his father died of a heart attack…
When his father died of a heart attack, Ronald Mallett resolved to discover time travel to see him again. He went on to earn a PhD in physics and become a professor, and has been working on plans for a time machine ever since.
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People Share Why Modern Conveniences Trump the Decadence of the Past Every Time
When we look back on history, it can be tempting to see the good parts. The things that seem better than they are now, especially for those who were well off in one way or another.
The times we live in are great, but when you’re living in it every single day, the bad parts tend to shine a little brighter.
That said, when someone on Reddit asked whether or not people would trade our modern comforts for an elevated position in the past, pretty much no one said yes.
15. We have a few questions.
Depends, do I keep everything else?
Knowledge, vaccines I already got (ie immunity) – can I choose where to go back to and prepare? If yes I’d definitely go back and jump start a lot of inventions.
Everyone here is only thinking about how their life would be negatively affected (I do too by making sure I wouldn’t just get sick and die) but no one thinks about how much you could help literally everyone alive right now, the more back you go, the bigger the risk, the bigger the reward.
Staying in the present is the best choice for you, going back could be the best thing for humanity, ever.
14. If you could take your knowledge with you…
I would take a tiny step up for a tiny step back. Industrialist family in the early 1900s instead of a broke family in the early 2000s… I could invest with amazing results…
13. That went downhill fast.
Yes. Go back to 1870 and rob a fucking train with no repercussions.
Other than getting shot without a trial.
Or hung with a trial. Come to think of it, law back then was a lot less law and a lot more like murder.
12. We really do have it pretty good.
No. Never. No matter how much todays society sucks and has it’s flaws, it’s still astronomically better than for example the middle ages.
11. Things weren’t exactly safe.
I’d prefer to be a commoner in the 2020’s rather than a king in the 1020’s
I can still live a long and happy life now vs constantly being at war against disease, the french, and conspirators.But worst of all…the French.
Also, hello my Kiwi neighbour.
10. It’s just the hard facts.
Hard pass. A average person in a poor country lives better than a Roman emperor. Eradicated disease, vaccine, hygiene, internet…
9. You’ll hear this again and again.
Heck no. As a woman, I have rights in this time.
In the past, even in the recent past, I would be completely at the mercy of men. I don’t care how high up I would be in status, I would still be susceptible to legalized domestic violence and rape with no means of getting a divorce.
Time traveling is not for women or minorities.
8. Who you are definitely factors in.
Hell no. I’m gay, female, Jewish, chronically ill, and a fan of indoor plumbing, electricity, and modern medicine. I’ll stay right here, thank you.
None of those things would go down well in the past. They still don’t go down well for a lot of people today even
Plus netflix!
7. There are a lot of downsides.
Definitely not, women were basically property of men, they were literally second class citizens, gay rights weren’t that great either, and I could go on mentioning racial segregation, etc. Things are not perfect now either, but they used to be way worse, unless you were a straight, white man… This is just from the culture/society point of view, but medicine etc wasn’t that advanced either.
Yeah and talking about how unadvanced medicine was they literally thought in the 80s that babies didn’t feel pain like adults do. So they would do insane stuff like open heart surgery, circumcisions, and other surgery with no anesthesia. No wonder some 80s babies are so messed up mentally they essentially were tortured when they came out the womb.
6. Women have more reasons than most.
Hard no! For one main reason: periods. They’re a nightmare today, so going back to before pads, tampons, diva cups, etc. were invented is a terrible idea.
Also, the whole “women are property/lesser citizens” thing is also a huge detractor.
5. We do have it pretty good.
There are lot things wrong with the world right now but this is the best time to be alive. Better to live in an uncertain future than a terrible past.
No. We never had it as good as today but some people dont see that. Would maybe go back to 2018-2019 before the pandemic
4. Maybe if you didn’t have to go back so far?
If I could go back to the 1990s then yes.
Life was fun and optimistic, limited media was a shared experience across the country and home use of the internet was relatively rare.
People had a better sense of humour and there was no social media to cocoon minority echo-chambers.
3. It wasn’t all bad.
I don’t need to be in a better societal position. Give me a homestead in the Midwest circa 1800 outside a town, and I’d be happier than a pig in shit. I wouldn’t be alienated from my labor. I’d work less and be self sufficient. Communities were stronger. Taylorism hadn’t been invented yet. The industrial revolution and all its consequences had only just begun. Police didn’t exist. No robber barons.
Capitalism was just an idea some guy named Adam Smith wrote about. The climate was stable. Nuclear weapons, predator drones, and Raytheon knife missiles hadn’t been constructed yet. Mass surveillance was impossible. You could build and heat your home with your own two hands and a hatchet.
Basically, what I’m trying to say is, if you ignore the mass murder, the Unabomber had some decent points about industrial society. Not novel ones, mind you — Marx wrote similar things 150 years prior to his deranged killing spree. But perhaps society was better when it was simpler, if you ignore the slavery and lack of plumbing and all that other horrible stuff.
2. We just wouldn’t be able to handle it.
Very few people living in the western world today would be able to handle the loss of modern conveniences.
We live in a world were most people not only do not know hot to fix anything but also don’t know that things can be fixed.
1. Hard pass.
No. Even though I’m working class, life is exponentially better for someone in my position today than even just 150-200 years ago. But to be in a higher class and go back 30-40 years, definitely. I think, financially speaking, that’s what most of us today really want, the security our parents (or maybe grandparents) had.
There was an economist who said all society benefited from innovations of the prior generation. Going back wd erase those innovations. Meaning no travel by plane or car, so basically limited movement. No smart phones or phones for that matter. No television, radio. If you want to hear music basically has to be live. No antibiotics and vaccines, or even aspirin. So minor ailments can’t be treated. No electricity or indoor plumbing. No fridge or microwave. No kindle or access to millions of books.
Not even Alexander the Great who conquered half the known territory lived as well as I do right now. Or, cleopatra. Or, Elizabeth 1st. They got ill w things like consumption. Except for the homeless, even the poor in this country live better than royalty two hundred years ago or more.
I agree with all of these folks, especially as a woman!
Would you go? Stay? Tell us why in the comments!
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People Discuss What They’d Look Up If They Could Go to the Future
As someone who’s super interested in science and what it means for society, I look to the future with a combination of awe and dread.
Awe because of all the incredible possibilities technological advancements might bring to humanity, dread because the same scientific process that brings us those advancements is also warning us constantly that broadly speaking, we’re on a path to destruction.
So, given the opportunity to peek into the future, what might I do?
For five minutes you get transported 30 years into the future, you sit in front of a computer, what information to you look up? from AskReddit
Let’s see what the big brains at Reddit think.
1. Year by year.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021.
If possible, I’d try to save that file and send it to my phone.
Probably do that for 2022 all the way to 2051.
– petrichorInk
2. The list.
Biggest companies founded in the 2020s
List of presidents
And major world events
Three tabs, three google searches and hopefully a pen to write them on my hand and hope it transfers back
– MovingOnward2089
3. Taking stock.
Google 4-5 stocks that went to the moon, and etch that sh*t into your arms along with 5-10 duds. Who cares if you come home with 2nd-grade Pencil War Day injuries, you’re about to theoretically live forever.
Snap a few photos of the injuries, and go to the police to report being jumped by a homeless guy that held you down and etched some weird sh*t into you under threat of death while reciting latin. Now you have a cover story for then the SEC wants to know how you knew BCRX and four other stocks were going to the moon. “A homeless guy carved it into me, and honestly, I took it as a sign.”
Now produce tapes of the therapy where you rationalize it to your therapist as a coping mechanism and the therapist tells you that you’re absolutely not handling the trauma well. “I also dropped all this money into these stocks that were meh, so I guess I just got lucky.” Don’t finger any of the guys they bring into a lineup because 1, that’s gross, and 2, that’s mean, but let it slide as an unsolved case.
– HotHamWaterBath
4. Sports ball?
I’ve always wondered if “If you could go into the future, what would you look up blah blah” questions were answered with “sports scores” prior to BttF 2. It is the WRONG answer. So were people always wrong, or did the movie start that trend?
Even extremely rare horse bets pay out like what, 50:1?
With a single winning lottery ticket you can turn $1 into $300million.
– utspg1980
5. Finally!
See if GTA VI came out yet.
– szmatt0628
6. Rumors of wars.
Who won WW3 and to see if top sites like Reddit and Youtube survived
– redditorseth
7. The opportunist.
Look up the biggest financial fiasco in the last thirty years.
You now know how to get on the ground floor of something that’s going to make a bunch of people really rich and the exact knowledge of when you can get out without getting wrapped up in the aftermath.
– Joss_Card
8. My fate.
I’d check to see when/if I died.
I’m 59, now, and the oldest men in my family history last to about 85. My son-in-law works pretty hard on our family tree so I’m pretty sure he’d update it if me or my wife died.
It’d be a pretty quick check.
– 1tacoshort
9. Live in the moment, in the future.
I think I might look at social media et al to see what people are nostalgic about and miss from 30 years ago and try to enjoy it more when I go back.
– Waffuly
10. Take it all.
B*tch. I’d steal the computer.
Who wouldn’t want a computer 30 years more advanced than anything we have right now.
A library computer would probably be more powerful than any gaming laptop we have now
– Nauticalfish200
11. Why limit yourself?
I’ll just take my 8 TB drive and copy the entire content of Wikipedia to it, return to my timeline and spend the next 20 hours reading it and making a fortune by the second
– keima99
12. Yeah, except…
You need, at minimum:
• A compatible port (my guess is the average computer will have 0 ports by then)
• An OS that has driver support for a 30 year old drive
• An OS that has a file system that works with your drive
• An OS that has has support for physical external drives at all
• Data Bloat to have not rendered 8TB unhelpful.
• Wikipedia to have avoided, for three decades, the sh*tty trend of of making internet content sh*tty java nonsense that can’t easily by indexed.This plan is not going to work.
– TheGlennDavid
13. Out of order.
not in any order:
stocks, US Presidents, sport events, bitcoin, which area has been nuked, danger zones to not live in and figure a way to transport it when i get back to the past.
beat the sh*t out of bully Biff and marry my his gf, Lorraine Baines, give her implants, own a hotel / casino and live the life.
maybe run for president or something along the way
– [deleted user]
14. Science!
Scientific achievements in the past 30 years, and keeping track of the science behind the best ones. Jump start our progress toward the most efficient or just coolest technology.
Even if I can’t get everything about them, I could tell scientists which technology to look into more closely.
– NachoElDaltonico
15. …science.
What areas are most livable due to climate change.
– I_wear_foxgloves
Yeah, see, that kind of bummer dichotomy is exactly what I’m talking about.
What would YOU do?
Tell us in the comments.
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Physicists have recently shown…
Physicists have recently shown that time is self-healing – that if you did travel back in time, you would be unable to prevent the events that led you to travel back in time in the first place.
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These Funny Memes About Time Travel Might Make You See the Future
Time travel is most likely impossible, but what if it wasn’t? What if somebody tapped you on the shoulder tomorrow and it was YOU and YOU told you to not go to work the next day? Would you go to work?!? Well, would you?!?!
All we know for sure is that these 13 memes will transport you through space and time to a reality where you’re laughing more than you thought you would. Basically, 2 minutes from now.
Enjoy the trip!
13. So those jokes didn’t age well…
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12. My compatriots!
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11. Sorry Romans!
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10. Heh. 69…
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9. There’s a second one?!?
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8. You know it’ll happen…
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7. Oh snapppppppp…
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6. But why?!
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5. Let’s go!
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4. How many wars will there be?!?!
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3. **squeeeee!**
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2. Uh oh…
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1. Ladies and gentlemen… we will be victorious!
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Are you a time traveller? Answer yes or no in the comments. Then provide proof.
Don’t worry, we’ll wait.
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This illusion tricks your brain into time travel
Science Alert claims this illusions mimics time travel in the brain: In the Illusory Rabbit, the middle flash never happens, but most people still think they saw three flashes to match three beeps. In the Invisible Rabbit, it’s the middle beep that is missed – and the brain usually thinks there was no middle flash […]
On the 10 August, 1901, two academics believe they…
On the 10 August, 1901, two academics believe they accidentally time traveled back to 1792 and one of the pair believe that she saw Marie Antoinette.