If you could go back 100 years in time...

...and take your laptop with you, but you were only allowed 1 album, 1 film and 1 photograph/picture of the future on it, what would you take back to show your ancestors and why?

 

(album) The Best of Motown [who we are]

(film) Birth of A Nation [where we are]

(picture) Barack Obama being sworn in as President [what we'll become]

Hotwater

 

Film: The Dark Knight or Clerks
Picture: The earth from outer space.
Album: This is a tough one. I think I would take The Bluetones self titled album, a Rise Against album or Green Day - Bullet in a Bible. I wouldn't want to take something people wouldn't like though.

 

if i could go back a hundred years in time i wouldnt want a laptop.nor any movies and the music i would take back in time would be the same music the folks would be playin in the hills and hollers..

i would tell my ancestors they aint missin a fuckin thing and there wernt nothin worth takin a picture of to show them..

 

I would take a VERY large picture of all stock trading history, start a company, put it in the hands of someone I trusted, come back home, a week before present me was to be told about the trust I'd had set up for me to take advantage of the stock market totally.

if I am going to risk fucking up the time line I am going to make sure it is in my favor.

(all stocks so the whole thing can be diffused, a few large investments will change market behavior more than lots of smaller ones.)

 

haha.. best answer.

If only..

 

You are not allowed to convey information through the media you are permitted to take back, so sorry Dave_Techie, but sadly your plan to infiltrate the stock market loop and profit illicitly from it is foiled from the start.

 

Your ancestors may be more likely to listen to you if you had proof though, like a laptop

 

can't i just take a stack of books??

silent spring
any book on why marijuana is a cash crop
organic farming books (even though they'd be doing that already then,still)
reefer madness
diet for a new america
medical text books
natural health 'cure' books
women rights books
human rights books
children rights books

and probably a few others i will think about later..

 

In which case I'm taking a leaflet on Chlamydia. sp.

 

I spit on my ancestors graves. Fuck those guys.

 

Unless i can't take some weed... i don't wanna go

 

Hey I don't think it was illegal yet a hundred years ago, so you'll be able to score when you get there no problem.

 

um you do know that if you show anyone any of the things you take back then you have already conveyed information thru the media you took back.
DUH!!!!!