• mushroommunk@lemmy.today
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    23 hours ago

    That’s gotta be a good sci fi novel. Society invents time travel, and continuously goes back in time to accelerate their progress by uplifting their ancestors.

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      23 hours ago

      I’ve thought about ubiquitous time travel resulting in humans being able to choose not just where to live, but when, bringing their technology with them. What a mess that would make with the timeline!

      • WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today
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        21 hours ago

        You would actually physically be rolling back the entire universe, reverse-entropy style. So, only one person could do it, and they would basically be god.

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      21 hours ago

      Or every time society invents a time machine, the world ends and somebody has to come back and sabotage the effort. So humanity hits a wall in progress that it can only pass by not focusing on time-physics.

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        21 hours ago

        That kinda sounds like the plot of the cancelled Netflix show Travelers, to be honest.

        It was a good show, and the main characters were always going against other people from the future trying to foil their purpose for going back in time in the first place.