Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-26705150-20150821221139

You’ve probably wished that you could go back in time to experience the past, as so many people often do. Your reasons for such a fantasy may vary between wistfulness, getting to see a dead relative or a friend one more time, changing a mistake or an embarrassment that you’ve regretted for so long, or any number of other things. Whatever your reasons are for thinking about this, you’ve probably only thought about the benefits of this. But have you actually considered what would happen if such technology existed? Have you ever considered the pitfalls of such technology?

Man is no perfect creature and we’ve used technology for all sorts of things, good and bad. The automobile paved the way for easier transportation of people and goods, but it also paved the way for an expansion of military power, war, and tyranny.

The internet has allowed us instant access to thousands or even millions of bits of information, but it also has allowed criminals and predators to take advantage of those who don’t know any better.

In the same way, I’d imagine the time machine would be much like other previous forms of technology, a machine that would allow us to do just about anything, good or bad. But in truth, you could even say that it would be the ultimate technology that ever existed.

A machine that would allow us to change just about anything we didn’t like and influence the flow of events in history. In that sense, it’s almost like playing god. But should man have that much power over nature?

Imagine if you will, that a person doesn’t like the writing of a famous author so he kills them or affects their ability to even be born in the first place, Hitler has somehow been talked out of suicide or Germany wins the war, Britain somehow wins the revolutionary war, or any number of other things could happen.

I could go on for a while but you get the general idea. But just remember, as the saying goes, always be careful what you wish for.  