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Lovelock says the Earth is an old dame, and has only 500 million [thousand?] years to live...and I'm curious to know if Civilization , with climate change , pollution, overpopulation, will last that long...so I'd like to be projected 499.000 years from now in the future by the Time Machine, that's the ultimate in SciFi...
Even though I'm a history buff, given the choice of 'direction' I too would rather travel into the future than the past.
When I consider all of the incredible things in todays world that my grandparents and great-grandparents (all of whom were born AFTER the Industrial Revolution!) could never even have imagined ...... much less what my paternal ancestor who arrived in America 15 generations ago could possibly have imagined... my mind boggles at the thought of what life on Earth might be like 20, 30, or 50 generations down the line! I'd love to see that, because it no doubt will be as far ahead of us technologically as we are ahead of the court of William the Conqueror.
I've always loved books, movies, etc. about people from the past who time-travel into the (present day) future and their reactions and adaptations to our world. Of course it's easy for us, being on the 'advanced' end of the time track, to envision things like that but it's just as impossible for us to envision the world of even 100,000 years in the future as it would have been for my born-in-1776 ancestor to have envisioned almost any aspect of my quite ordinary daily life!
Heck, even my father, who was born in 1919, died before he had a chance to ever use a Windows PC (and he, being a science-and-technology junkie, would have loved it)...
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Lovelock says the Earth is an old dame, and has only 500 million [thousand?] years to live...and I'm curious to know if Civilization , with climate change , pollution, overpopulation, will last that long...so I'd like to be projected 499.000 years from now in the future by the Time Machine, that's the ultimate in SciFi...
