Would You Rather Travel To The Past or Future?

The past. I'm a huge medieval history geek, and since we tend to romanticize the past, I'd like to see life as it was; no fabrications, myths, or stereotypes. The future? It must be a terrible thing to know when, where, and how you're going to die, yet not be able to avoid it. What if there's some war, a plague, or famine? The danger wouldn't be in trying to understand the future, but in trying to alter its course. We have all these optimistic ideas of how things will be, and if they turn out never to happen? It would be a major downer, I'd imagine.

It's enough trouble just living in the present.

 

I'd say the future. Since I believe that traveling to the past would simply create a parallel universe and not effect your own universe, traveling to the past would be useless to me. Though I wouldn't mind visiting Ancient Egypt. But, yeah, I'd much prefer the future.

 

While I love history, I would have to pick future. A lot of the past was pretty misogynistic. Aside from being a lesbian, I can be a real bitch. I don't like being told what to do, so I most likely wouldn't last two minutes in the past without being arrested and/or killed.

Plus, it'd be interesting to see the future. Books don't paint a picture of the future like they do with the past. It'd be awesome to see a part of time that we know nothing about.

 

The future. I want to know how things will change hundreds of years from now.

 

The past.

I love vintagey things, and I'd rather whatever's in the future to be a surprise.

 

I love history and the tales of the past, but i'd rather visit the future. I'd love to see how civilization evolves, hopefully for the best. And it would be so amazing to travel to time where people can easily visit outer space and explore the solar system and galaxy.

 

There's a few questions I'd have, regarding this time travel.

Is it a one-time trip?
If I go to a place in time, is there is no coming back or going forward?

If it is a one-time trip, then this influences my answer. If I can go back and forth, as I please, there is more leeway in my answer.

 

The past, although I would probably spend my time in more recent past, mid-20th century to the millennium. Probably seeing some of the major events that happened during those times

If I saw the future, I would probably lose my mind trying to ensure whatever happened to BMW does or doesn't happen in my current life, also it would take all of the surprise and excitement out of the future

 

The past-with an out to come back home. There's some bully ass to kick as well as some hot guys to make some moves on and see what happens.

Also, I would love having the knowledge I have now to fool around more with my friend with benefits. Make him want to never leave. O.O.

 

With the option to come back, the future. This way, I could see all the winning Lotto numbers, outcomes of sporting events, and be rich when I came back, and not have to work, and thus be free to pursue meaningful, artistic and literary activities, instead of working so much that I barely have the time or energy for them.

So definitely the future.

 

This was difficult to pick, but I voted for the past. The future would be totally awesome with all the technology and stuff, but I enjoy the simple things in life a lot more. I'd like to travel back to the 50's, 60's, and 70's.

 

With the way they treated gay/queer people back then, I am not sure about that.

 

Neither. As both a racial and sexual minority, there is nothing that would make me wish to turn back time. Although I might be curious of what the future will bring for humanity, the prospects of the future on both a social and environmental level aren't something I am willing to put my trust in.

 

Well if I'm traveling with the intentions of coming back, then it's not a big deal. I'm going for the muscle cars and hippies, not for dates. :icon_cool

Though if I did find a lovely lady from the past, I'd say screw 'em and take her out anyways!

 

I want to see all the extinct langauges that we have no record of.