Monday, December 4, 2017

Check your Eloi privilege

Time travel stories are cool, but they’re not really science fiction; they’re pure fantasy. As I like to say, if we were going to have time machines ever we’d have had them always. We get our little tastes of it, though. Like every time you wake up you’ve travelled another day into the future. And what is dying but moving your entire life into the past? All that without a clumsy machine and the problems of finding a recharging socket in the Pleistocene. And even if you invented a time machine, someone would get to the patent office before you.

1 comment:

Mikey said...

Ummm..We live in a time machine. You can view the past through a telescope, you can see the future by hanging around. If you could build a mechanical time machine, it would be a time machine inside a time machine. Ow. Ow. Ow. Ow.