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TIME PARADOX

ACTIVE SPEAKING - PART D

According to a 2014 survey into people’s opinions on technology and the future, a time travel machine is the number 1 most hoped for piece of technology.

What is the number 1 most hoped for piece of technology? The number one most hoped for piece of technology is a time travel machine.

More than personal robots or spacecraft, Americans want to time travel.

Do people want personal robots more than time travel? No, they don’t want personal robots more than time travel.

The only thing that matched their desire for time travel was technology that will extend their lives.

What matched their desire for time travel? Technology that will extend their lives matched their desire for time travel. What would you rather have, a time machine or life extension technology? And if you think about it, those two future technologies are related.

Do you think these two future technologies are related? We are all traveling through time into the future, and the ability to live longer extends that travel.

Are we all traveling through time? Yes, we are all traveling through time.

The people who replied to John’s ad didn’t want to travel into the future. They were mostly interested in traveling to the past.

Were they interested in traveling into the future or the past? They were mostly interested in traveling to the past.

While some of them no doubt simply dreamed of being time tourists and visiting ancient civilizations or dinosaurs, many of them were driven by regret and the desire to right past wrongs.

Did some of them dream of being time tourists? Yes, some of them dreamed of being time tourists. Were many of them driven by regret and the desire to right past wrongs? Yes, many of them were driven by regret and the desire to right past wrongs.

There were self-serving regrets like this one: “We saw your ad recently while here in jail. We are all felons and would like to go back and not get caught.” Who were they? They were all felons. Did they want to go back and avoid a life of crime? No, they didn’t want to go back to avoid a life of crime. They wanted to go back and not get caught.

Can you get us back in time from where you are or do we need to travel to California? What did they ask about California? They asked if they needed to travel to California.

If so, that might pose a problem since we are stuck here for a while. But maybe you could go back and change things for us.” Where were they stuck? They were stuck in jail.

And there were heartfelt pleas to help people go back in time and save the lives of loved ones who had passed away.

Were there heartfelt pleas? Yes, there were heartfelt pleas. What were they asking for help with? They were asking for help going back in time to save the lives of loved ones who had passed away.

Some of the saddest were from parents who had lost their children.

Who were some of the saddest letters from? Some of the saddest letters were from parents who had lost their children.

One parent wanted to go back and rescue their son from a suicide. Another wanted to go back and stop their daughter from getting into a fatal car crash.

What did the parent want to stop the daughter from doing? The parent wanted to stop the daughter from getting into a fatal car crash.

There was even a letter from a murderer who wanted to go back and choose a different path, one in which her husband didn’t end up dead.

Did the murderer want to go back and choose a different path? Yes, the murderer wanted to go back and choose a different path. Was it a path in which her husband didn’t end up dead? Yes, it was a path in which her husband didn’t end up dead.

She wrote to John and said, “I don’t care about my safety. In fact if I cannot change the events of the past, I would prefer not to even survive.” What did she not care about? She didn’t care about her safety. If she couldn’t change the events of the past, what did she prefer to happen? If she couldn’t change the events of the past, she preferred not to survive.

The great danger in almost all time travel fiction is not death.

Is the great danger in almost all time travel fiction death? No, the great danger in almost all time travel fiction is not death.

It is going back and changing things in a way that has terrible consequences for the future.

What kind of consequences does time travel fiction warn us about? Time travel fiction warns us about terrible consequences for the future.

Interestingly, according to the Pew survey on future technology, older Americans are by far less interested in time travel than middle-aged and younger Americans.

Who is less interested in time travel? Older Americans, middle-aged Americans or younger Americans? Older Americans are less interested in time travel.

It could be because the more we age, the more we appreciate our past experiences good or bad, or it could be that older people have more experience in life and have learned to accept the sadness and loss that time inevitably brings to all of us.

Do you think the more we age, the more we accept sadness and loss? The End.