If you can visit any era, which would it be?

0atmeel

For me, it's the old west.
What say you?

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0atmeel

SafariGalNYC wrote: »

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Just in time to see Cleopatra, Marc Antony and Jesus.

Great call!

AnnPT77

Future. I'm old, but wanna know how some of the current stuff turns out, after my probable death date. Besides that, most of the past was kind of extra dismal for women, y'know?

nossmf

I thought about being snarky and go back to the 90's to tell myself to invest in Apple and Bitcoin, but the more I think about it, the more I'd still say the 90's anyway, hit some concerts for bands no longer on tour, enjoy the freedom from internet saturation, visit a Blockbuster. Ah, nostalgia.

Venus_1

Nothing before regular showers and brushing teeth. Agree with AnnPT77 I would rather see where we’re at in 100 years or so. But for the fun of, it to the time when 7 wonders of the world were still in their full glory.

cwolfman13

I'm with @AnnPT77 , I'd rather see into the future and see how things turn out. I'm also "old" as dads go...48 with a 10 and 13 yo so I'd like to see how they're getting on in there 50s...grandchildren, great grandchildren, etc. I mean who knows, I might still be around then but the men in my family historically don't go much past their late 70s with the one exception being my great grandfather who lived to 95 but was also pretty lost for his last 10 years or so.

Historically, I guess maybe post revolution America...like 1785 - 1820 or so. Our history classes and text books only really teach us about declaring independence and the revolution as if that was it and boom, we were a united country...in reality it's the 30-40 years post revolution that really defined the young country.

springlering62

Would you think I was crazy if I said the Blitz? I’ve read as many diaries as I can find from the era. Coping, surviving, coming together, getting it done, female SOE agents, it all fascinates me.

Honestly, though, this is the best time to be alive. Medical advances, technology since I was born is astonishing, communications, too.

Remember going to World of Tomorrow at Epcot as a kid and they imagined the wildest, bestest things they could? We have all of them now, from hydroponics to FaceTime to cities lit by LED.

I worry about AI capabilities in the future. I read a lot of Asimov as a kid. It’s almost here, y’all.

0atmeel

nossmf wrote: »

I thought about being snarky and go back to the 90's to tell myself to invest in Apple and Bitcoin, but the more I think about it, the more I'd still say the 90's anyway, hit some concerts for bands no longer on tour, enjoy the freedom from internet saturation, visit a Blockbuster. Ah, nostalgia.

I loved the 90s, I wish I enjoyed it more!

0atmeel

springlering62 wrote: »

Would you think I was crazy if I said the Blitz? I’ve read as many diaries as I can find from the era. Coping, surviving, coming together, getting it done, female SOE agents, it all fascinates me.

Honestly, though, this is the best time to be alive. Medical advances, technology since I was born is astonishing, communications, too.

Remember going to World of Tomorrow at Epcot as a kid and they imagined the wildest, bestest things they could? We have all of them now, from hydroponics to FaceTime to cities lit by LED.

I worry about AI capabilities in the future. I read a lot of Asimov as a kid. It’s almost here, y’all.

AI freaks me out...I agree with the medical advances though!

0atmeel

Venus_1 wrote: »

Nothing before regular showers and brushing teeth. Agree with AnnPT77 I would rather see where we’re at in 100 years or so. But for the fun of, it to the time when 7 wonders of the world were still in their full glory.

I love how you put "Not before showers and brushing teeth" 🤣🤣 Awesome.
The future scares me, AI taking over, and the attention span of people declining. I'll just leave it that. Don't want to get political here. I do see the future as shown in the movie Idiocracy though.

Hiawassee88

0atmeel wrote: »

For me, it's the old west.
What say you?

I live in the wild, wild west. Which version did you like the most?

Blazing Saddles, Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid, Roy Rogers or Matt Dillion and Miss Kitty. 🐴 We simply haven't got the time for me to tell you what I think about 'Yellowstone'. I can't watch it. That is all.

Sidenote: @Oatmeel, I'll take Artificial Intelligence over natural idiocy, any old day of the week. I ain't a scared of it, at all. We've sure gotta lotta brains somewhere, because no one is using any. 🤣

AnnPT77

Hiawassee88 wrote: »

0atmeel wrote: »

For me, it's the old west.
What say you?

I live in the wild, wild west. Which version did you like the most? Blazing Saddles, Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid, Roy Rogers or Matt Dillion and Miss Kitty. 🐴 We simply haven't got the time for me to tell you what I think about 'Yellowstone'. I can't watch it. That is all.

Sidenote: @Oatmeel, I'll take Artificial Intelligence over natural idiocy, any old day of the week. I ain't a scared of it, at all. We've sure gotta lotta brains somewhere, because no one is using any. 🤣

I don't really get this "fear of the future" thing either.

I understand that there are big unknowns, sure.

But most of the past was pretty darned awful for the average person, not something I feel remotely competent to be dropped into the middle of. Even the conditions my parents were raised in (think pre-electrification poverty-based subsistence farming) would break me in an instant.

I wasn't assuming that I'd get to go back to the past and sit on some nice clean tourist bus and spectate, or that I'd get dropped into the scene as a wealthy noble being carried around in a sedan chair. I was assuming I'd just . . . be there, as me, trying to figure out how the (bleep) to get food and shelter and not get whacked by some brigand or something, or fall to the plague or cholera or some other thing I have zero immune system capability for handling.

Awful, most of history. Squalid, dangerous, disease-plagued, lots of famines, . . . yikes! And like I said, mostly worse for women besides. Unaccompanied ones, in most settings were seriously SOL.

springlering62

Visualizing @AnnPT77 in a sedan chair.

Good thing you’ve developed those lats for all the whipping you’ll be doing. “Faster, paeons! Why, in my day I could row a boat faster than this!”

Hiawassee88

Ann and Spring. Our time has come. We all know that we could run this joint. I'm talking the country.

The wild, wild west was brutal. The hollywood version is a bunch of hooey. We're diverse in our thinking. It's supposed to be that way. We're not bots. Do you think I'm afraid of AI.

Good Golly, Miss Molly. We had to create some brains or we could flip the switch, let women run the entire outfit. It's time for change.

Three of the most stressful jobs.
Air Traffic Controller
Emergency Room Doctor
Chef

We got this.
My era is now. Many of mine died of typhoid fever and other diseases. Gunshot wounds. River crossings and drownings, broken bones, freezing and starving to death in the winter. Good medicine and good food fixes everything.