Who of us did not dream about time-traveling? Probably there are no humans who would not think about this idea.
Last time I thought that time-traveling, indeed, could be a marvelous experience. I already wrote about time-traveling in one of my previous posts, named “Back to the past” (there are two parts of this story). I wrote that scientists sent Stanislaw Lem, a famous Polish science-fiction writer, and philosopher, to the XX-century Poland by accident, from the future.
On the other hand, last time I dreamt that I want to travel to the future, to let’s say 3000 AD.
What would I do if such a time-traveling be possible? After travel in time to the future, I would buy a book, similar to the book named “Sun And Moon” by Phaidon. Will there be paper books at all? I have no idea. After buying such a book, I would trace the history of space conquer by humans (including the colonization of the planet Mars). Then, I would look at current times the beginning of the XXI century from such a distant perspective. I am sure that humanity will be technologically on a much higher level (assuming no disaster, such as a hit in the meteorite on Earth or nuclear war).
However, at the same time, we will still not be able to answer questions such as whether God exists and whether life exists after death.
What I want to stress in this post is the fact that if I time-travel to 3000 AD, it would a be the probably similar case if someone would time-travel to 2020 AD, from, let’s say, 100 AD. Technological development, general knowledge, undoubtedly would on a much higher level. Still, we would be helpless in terms of asking questions on many existential questions, e.g., what is death.
Besides this, by time-traveling, I would be inquisitive about all the things that happened, in terms of outer space conquering, between 2020 AD and 3000 AD. Thus, one of the first things that I would do after time-traveling (besides taking pictures) is buying a book.
