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If I Had a Time Machine, What Time Would You like to Travel to and Why?

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If I had a time machine, I would travel to the future in order to see what would become of our digital world. It seems to me, I would be deeply disappointed. I would not be able to find rain forests round the Amazon River, perhaps one entertainment park with one square mile of preserved rain forest. I would find new volumes of the Red Book, in which I would find sparrows that became extinct in polluted urban areas. I would find pale people equipped with ipads of the latest generation. They would pass by me without saying a world because their true life was inside their computers. I would feel silence everywhere, interrupted by the noise of flying cars and other new means of transport. I would find artificial trees in pots and greenhouses where people would spend life on trying to grow not genetically modified fruit and vegetables. People would forget about printed books and hard copies. They would have installed computers in their heads. They would be like machines, for they would construct new technological miracles. I would be an alien in this new world. I would feel lonely. I would see people who are pragmatic and individualistic. These people would be practically dressed, physically in good condition but emotionally neutral. They would hardly ever laugh because they would never make mistakes and would be all perfect, as they would not need standardized tests anymore. They would be able to cheat with all their technological devices, so their knowledge would not be monitored at school.

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