Comment

Comment on If I snapped you back in time 650 years right this very second, how would you use your current knowledge to succeed?

FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

First off. Do I get to bring stuff with me? Like say the entire printed off contents of wikipedia.

also, I would like find one or two things that hadn’t quite been invented yet and ‘invent’ it.

also, Also, with a modicum of military power, I’d probably start a religion.

Sort:hotnew top

markovs_gun@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
In what language? Modern English didn’t exist yet and neither did pretty much any modern language. Good luck trying to get the local nobles and priests to decipher the hundreds of codices you brought with you that are in some strange language that nobody has seen before

source
- FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Wikipedia is for my benefit, so I can just read it.
  
  Nobody else needs to even know I have it, necessarily.
  
  Them not being able to read it might even be a boon.
  
  The goal is to get a leg up on things, not start having nuclear reactors in the medieval era.
  
  For example muskets had an iterative development as small incremental changes took place. Relatively small changes made modest improvements.
  
  It would also be nice to know when eclipses are about to happen, for, ah, reasons.
  
  source