Time Travel
I have always wished I could travel in time. And no, it is not to change the past, kill Hitler, or do anything drastic.
Think about it. We all find ourselves stuck in situations that test our patience - stuck in traffic, buffering videos, endless loading screens. In these situations, I would get annoyed (just like anyone else). But it also makes me wish I could just go back in time and experience how people used to live in the past. Imagine waiting three months just to get a letter to someone across the ocean, then another three months to get their reply. Today, we can talk in real time with someone on the opposite side of the world but we still get mad when someone doesn't pick up the phone and we have to wait a few more minutes.
Just a few decades ago, you’d have to wait for your favorite movie to show in theaters and stand in line, hoping there’d be a ticket left. Or you might hear a song over a radio and you will be lucky if you hear the same song ever again. Now we have entire libraries of media at our fingertips. We can stream music or binge-watch shows on demand, but we’re still irritated if an episode takes too long to buffer.
We have bullet trains and planes that take us across continents in hours, but we are still impatient. Imagine how long it took, traveling on horseback or on foot.
But this doesn't stop here. Technology will continue to improve and one day who knows humanity will be able to teleport or communicate through telepathy. I would love to time travel to that time and experience how we are going to feel. Are we going to be still impatient, or will we finally feel like we’ve arrived?
#time_travel #technology
I have always wished I could travel in time. And no, it is not to change the past, kill Hitler, or do anything drastic.
Think about it. We all find ourselves stuck in situations that test our patience - stuck in traffic, buffering videos, endless loading screens. In these situations, I would get annoyed (just like anyone else). But it also makes me wish I could just go back in time and experience how people used to live in the past. Imagine waiting three months just to get a letter to someone across the ocean, then another three months to get their reply. Today, we can talk in real time with someone on the opposite side of the world but we still get mad when someone doesn't pick up the phone and we have to wait a few more minutes.
Just a few decades ago, you’d have to wait for your favorite movie to show in theaters and stand in line, hoping there’d be a ticket left. Or you might hear a song over a radio and you will be lucky if you hear the same song ever again. Now we have entire libraries of media at our fingertips. We can stream music or binge-watch shows on demand, but we’re still irritated if an episode takes too long to buffer.
We have bullet trains and planes that take us across continents in hours, but we are still impatient. Imagine how long it took, traveling on horseback or on foot.
But this doesn't stop here. Technology will continue to improve and one day who knows humanity will be able to teleport or communicate through telepathy. I would love to time travel to that time and experience how we are going to feel. Are we going to be still impatient, or will we finally feel like we’ve arrived?
#time_travel #technology