Comments on: Time & Technology

By: martymankins

martymankins — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 16:58:31 +0000

missy – Two great suggestions. More Jane Austen and being able to digitally document the WWII era.

kilax – Nice. That would be cool, with no restrictions.

By: kilax

kilax — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 11:50:38 +0000

Hmm. Maybe the early 1800s with an SUV. I could do some off-road exploring before the country was developed.

By: Missy

Missy — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 05:27:36 +0000

I would want to take doctors with medical equipment and medicines back to visit Jane Austen. There just isn’t enough Austen in the world and if she could have lived to write more…!!!!!

As for me, I would have liked to have taken a camera or computer back to the last days of WWII and the years that followed.

By: martymankins

martymankins — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 04:59:41 +0000

breakaway9 – Wasn’t the Wild West all ammo to begin with?

dave2 – Ok, now that would be cool.

alex – That would be some trip … to be able to film some of the “trips”

amber – Love it.

avitable – Atomizing Ray Guns don’t need lots of ammo.

delmer – Have you blogged about this certain night in 1984 before?

ren – I remember that show… very short lived indeed. I embrace technology a lot, but the coolness factor of going back in time with something from the modern world could elicit looks and stares and pure amazement.

kevin – Your comment reminds me on one thing from Back To The Future 2: Gray’s Sports Almanac

sybil law – Now that’s thinking. Air conditioning rocks (now that I have it)

kapgar – That only requires going back 40 years (and a few days)… not too bad. Showing up those with the Super 8 cameras with something a fraction of the size.

By: kapgar

kapgar — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 02:59:49 +0000

Woodstock with a digital video camera.

By: Sybil Law

Sybil Law — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 00:46:29 +0000

Sometime in the 20′s, with speakeasies and jazz and all that shizz. Although I’m not sure how I’d look as a flapper…
Anyway, the device I’d take would be… hmm… I guess I’d have to say a computer, assuming it could actually work. Maybe just a Corvette or something, though, to freak them out.
Mostly, I’d just love to travel back to the 1920′s. With air conditioning.

By: Kevin Spencer

Kevin Spencer — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 22:31:42 +0000

Ha, having internet access would make you seem like some kind of Nostradamus like genius. Not only could you “predict” events in advance, you’d have the answers to seemingly every question asked of you.

By: Ren

Ren — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 21:46:35 +0000

I’m too addicted to modern times to really want to go back to live in an earlier time. A visit might be okay, but even then I figure the negatives could easily outweigh the positives. Well, unless I just use it to get rich, of course.

This topic makes me miss that short-lived show, “Journeyman”. In particular, I am reminded of the episode where he somehow left a camera or phone or something in the past and back in the present found that computer technology was leaps and bounds ahead. He had to fix it for other reasons, though.

By: delmer

delmer — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 20:47:44 +0000

A certain night in 1984 … and I’d like to take “what I know now” with me.

By: Avitable

Avitable — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 19:23:19 +0000

I’d want to visit 2009 with my Google Portable Teleporter/Universal Translator/Atomizing Ray Gun.

By: Amber

Amber — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 18:14:47 +0000

I’d like to live in the Victorian Era… with the gorgeous dresses, with men who still had manners and knew how to treat ladies, etc.

And I would want to bring my computer so that I could write scandalous romance novels anonymously! =)

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 17:52:03 +0000

This one’s a toughy… I think it’d be cool to be back in the late 60s/early 70s…probably just a good camera/camcorder.