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Re: John Titor

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Post by Nextgrid »

29athrowaway wrote: post #156
n0rbwah wrote: post #155

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How that problem can be solved by an IBM 5100, a computer that has never ran any flavor of unix is a mystery though. I guess we'll find out when we have to send someone into the past to retrieve one so we can fix the bug.

You may not be able to open the files to be fixed in such ancient computer.

My understanding is the opposite.

To me it seems that in the future they for some reason need to access files that can only be opened on that computer.

If time travel is indeed possible and relatively common, it might be a better business decision to just send someone back in time to fetch a working version of that computer than try to recreate one from archived documentation (if any of it survived).

Re: John Titor

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Post by andai »

SL61 wrote: post #46
andai wrote: post #31

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Also paywalled for me (maybe because I'm in the EU?)

It's paywalled for me too, in the US. If you paste the URL into Google and follow the link from there, the article will come up.

So that's how that works :) Thank you.

Re: John Titor

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Post by 3fe9a03ccd14ca5 »

Nextgrid wrote: post #161
29athrowaway wrote: post #156

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You may not be able to open the files to be fixed in such ancient computer.

My understanding is the opposite. To me it seems that in the future they for some reason need to access files that can only be opened on that computer. If time travel is indeed possible and relatively common, it might be a better business decision to just send someone back in time to fetch a working version of that computer than try to recreate one from archived documentation (if any of it survived).

Why not send them forward in time, to a point where it’s been fixed, and bring back the solution?

Re: John Titor

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Post by 29athrowaway »

Nextgrid wrote: post #161
29athrowaway wrote: post #156

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You may not be able to open the files to be fixed in such ancient computer.

My understanding is the opposite. To me it seems that in the future they for some reason need to access files that can only be opened on that computer. If time travel is indeed possible and relatively common, it might be a better business decision to just send someone back in time to fetch a working version of that computer than try to recreate one from archived documentation (if any of it survived).

If there is something special about that computer it can surely just be executed in an emulator running on any future computer that is more powerful and uses less power, like a Raspberry Pi or its future equivalent.

Re: John Titor

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Post by Nextgrid »

29athrowaway wrote: post #164
Nextgrid wrote: post #161

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My understanding is the opposite. To me it seems that in the future they for some reason need to access files that can only be opened on that computer. If time travel is indeed possible and relatively common, it might be a better business decision to just send someone back in time to fetch a working version of that computer than try to recreate one from archived documentation (if any of it survived).

If there is something special about that computer it can surely just be executed in an emulator running on any future computer that is more powerful and uses less power, like a Raspberry Pi or its future equivalent.

This would still require having the original documentation on how the computer operated. Not to mention, some software (notably some retro console games) rely on quirks or flaws in the silicon itself, and don't actually run on a "perfect" emulator.

If time travel is common and either of these issues is raised then sending someone back to bring the real computer might be the easiest option.

Re: John Titor

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Post by mekster »

euske wrote: post #150

To believe that time travel is possible is to believe that the universe keeps all the snapshots of every moment in some backup storage. From the economic viewpoint, it is very unwise. I don't think the universe is that dumb.

What do you know about the universe's economic viewpoint?

Re: John Titor

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Post by mekster »

29athrowaway wrote: post #156
n0rbwah wrote: post #155

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How that problem can be solved by an IBM 5100, a computer that has never ran any flavor of unix is a mystery though. I guess we'll find out when we have to send someone into the past to retrieve one so we can fix the bug.

You may not be able to open the files to be fixed in such ancient computer.

Bugs are fixed by human brains, not some files. Those plots only work in movies.

Re: John Titor

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Post by mekster »

The way he didn't mention crypto currency that must have effected their future economy already sounds sketchy. See they still using paper bills everywhere?

Re: John Titor

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Post by tinus_hn »

rossdavidh wrote: post #25

So, in the late 90's I went to a goth convention in New Orleans, where my wife met a time traveller named "Butterfly". I saw her talking to a weird looking guy, and swung by to see if she needed help, but she had that "oh this is going to be a great story" look on her face and kind of shooed me away. Later, she told me he had claimed to be from the future. He made some predictions: - there would be a war in Iraq, but…

I presume you do know that the Lord of the Rings movies are derived from books that were already very famous in the 90s?

Re: John Titor

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Post by simcop2387 »

mindcrime wrote: post #86
simcop2387 wrote: post #48

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Looks like it's The Muse by Anthony Burgess (1968). Sorry for the long URL but it's the best confirmation of this I could find. [1] [1] https://books.google.com/books?id=mh9zrji5zfAC&pg=PA185&lpg=...

Or maybe "The Merchant of Stratford"? https://www.library.illinois.edu/rbx/shakespeare400/2016/03/...

Awesome, I guess this is a common topic for Sci-Fi stories that there's so many similar ones.
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