I choose to use my powers for evil. I will pop into existence in 2000 BC, 50 yards from the future Apollo 11 landing site. Neil Armstrong is going to make one small step for a man. Then he is going to shit in his space diaper when he finds a 4000 year old dessicated infant corpse just sitting there, completely inexplicably, exposed on the lunar surface.
Makes me think of the watchmen hbo series.
2000s USA, in an alternate timeline where world leaders actually fought against the impending climate crisis, Dubya was never elected, and I’m born to a non-toxic middle class (actual rich people are toxic btw) family, and this alternate world already got rid of racism for at least 100 years already and on the way to elminate the wealth gap.
(But, nah, such a world doesn’t exist. Fucking world line convergence fucking me over. I need to like get 10 attractor fields to another set of world lines to get out of this mess.)
I wouldn’t change anything. More than happy to be born in the early 90’s in the country I live in.
Can I choose my gender? If not, then not any earlier than I was born.
Exactly what I came here to say. Well, I would specify sex rather than gender. I wouldn’t want to be born female at any point in history.
I guess at least there are those specific moments in history when, if you were to be born in a specific country, being a woman at least significantly increases your life expectancy.
If I knew what shit was about to go down and I had to be born in, say, Soviet Russia in 1925, I would probably have opted to be a woman. Not because it seems so darn great, but because chances of at least making it to age 30 would significantly improve.
Then again, not a point in history I would particularly favour.
Yeah, that should have been sex, not gender.
I’d love to be born on earth in about three thousand years.
Oh, taking the Dr. Stone route? I know bushcraft and survival, can I come?
I’ve been to the year 3000, and your great great great granddaughter looks pretty fine…
Awesome, I’m glad they’re healthy.
Was referencing this … https://youtu.be/CxGj9kQa64c
I really liked being a kid and teenager through the 80s and 90s, I don’t think I’d change that. But I would certainly accept the opportunity to do it again!
Maybe this time in Japan, instead of the US. Though the US would be fine too.
Are you me?
Yes, and now they know.
Ten years earlier, i.e. mid-1980s. I would have been a young adult when the Internet was starting to be awesome, instead I was a preteen or early teen.
As for location, the US would be nice tbh.
I was born in the mid-1980’s, and Iw as going to say “10 years earlier in the 1970’s” so I could have been a teen in the 90’s.
You’d probably want 20 years earlier, i.e. mid-1970s. Mid-1990s were when the Internet was starting to be awesome. Broadband was just coming out, but the first web browser was already 5 years old in 1995.
nah that’s when my parents were born and their lives don’t seem that awesome tbh
I was born in 1975, and my youth was pretty awesome. I was also born in the Netherlands, so booze (and drugs, but I never did that) were available at a young age. Also, affordable concerts and festivals and great music scenes.
Sometime in the future, assuming the human race even lasts long enough.
Basically when a world like Star Trek TNG exists.
All my stupid health problems could be fixed.
To be able to travel space would be great, to lay on the moon and watch the Earth. Go admire Jupiter (from a distance).
Work, not because I have to, but because I enjoy the challenge and want to better myself and humanity.
I know for the show they couldn’t really go all out, but I think being a holodeck author would be fun as a side hobby. Could be in a fun working out with whomever inspired you. Hands on learning, anything. Visit places you can’t (like surface of Venus). But also think of like what a video game would be like because you wouldn’t need a controller or VR headset you’re just there. So you could be a Space Marine. Or be Spider-Man! We’ve done reading books, we’ve done watching books, we’ve even done audiobooks… But there you could participate. Or maybe just be there and watch it unfold.
Victoria, Australia, 1990s. I say Victoria because it’s not as hot as most other areas of Australia and I don’t do well with heat.
Height of the incan empire would be nice tbh. Fucking beautiful place to live and relatively comfortable conditions
Chicago such that I turned 17 in 1973 when the draft was formally stopped… So 1956 then. Then ideally get an associates for next to nothing and transfer to urbana in the now the later half of the 70’s which is a perfect time to get a computer science degree.
1-2 decades earlier maybe (meaning: 60s or 70s). Location… I don’t know. Maybe Norway, I’ve never heard anything bad about Norway. Might just be random selection bias though.
Norway only discovered oil worth extracting December 23 1969. So you would not have grown up in a particularly rich country, but you would see the country gain incredible wealth as you grew older.
If you were born in the early 60s and bought a house in the early 80s, you’d be pretty fucked when the global economy crashed. But I guess that goes for everywhere. The 70s would probably be a better bet in that sense.
You’d probably not live in a city, but in some village in the middle of nowhere. So the wealth of the country would mostly be noticable through the social security web built around you, and the fact that your random village suddenly got a tunnel to it. If you’re a farmer you’d receive subsidies so it would be somewhat possible to keep going, even as your peers in continental Europe would run out of business one by one.
You’d probably secretly wish you would also go out of business so you could retire to something less taxing.
You would spend your childhood amazed by America, and jealous of the youth revolution going on there. You’d watch American movies and grow up idolizing American and British war heroes. You would think your stupid valley was the most boring place on earth.
In your old age, you would thank your lucky star you’re not in America. Maybe you’d get a house in Spain for the cold winters. Your family would think less of you for it, but they wouldn’t be vocal about it.
Eh, maybe just a decade earlier so that I would have had a chance to see Pantera play live. Otherwise meh
The advent of computer technology is kind of hard to pass up but there were other things in history that could have been just as interesting on a different level. It might have been cool to be an explorer when the americas were discovered. Ok life would have been pretty miserable but the vast unknown would have been cool. Still would be hard to give up modern medicine.
I’d have loved it if I could have been there with the Elephant 6 crew in Athens GA during the 90s. The music those folks produced is some of my favorite, and it’s totally the music I’m trying to make myself.
Any link to your music? I love the E6 collective. Most people just know NMH but the whole lot of them were just amazing
Nothing published just yet! I saw the E6 documentary this summer and it lit a spark in me and my mates. My biggest influence is from the Olivias, and particularly I take more after Will Hart’s style (with my best mate being the Bill Doss of our group.) I’m actually gonna try doing some field recordings to try a Green Typewriters-esque musique concrete piece.
Im always stuck on the point that we never consented to existance, can I simply decline to be born in this hypothetical because I think thats my pick.
