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Changing history
Jan. 14th, 2008 05:28 pmI was amused by this message on my computer at work:
I like the idea of the Microsoft Time Machine. There you go into the past ("Loading Ancient Greece - 72% complete") and have your fun. Murder Alexander the Great in his cradle, introduce modern medicine to the Black Death, plant supermarket trolleys in Pre-Cambrian era, teach rap to medieval monks, start the Reformation two centuries early etc. etc. History's your oyster. When you're bored and want to come back, just click "no" when asked if you want to save changes.
Of course, the problems start if you're in a bit of rush. Imagine the scene: Terrified British explorer is chased back to his time machine by a horde of rampaging dinosaurs. Breathless, panicking, he stabs at the controls, desperate to go home. "Do you want to save changes...?" "No! No!" gasps the British man, hitting "enter." "Oh no!" he cries, an instant later, but it is too late. The hour glass shows for a moment. "I meant to say no," says the French pink jellyfish, as he grovels to his ape overlords...
I like the idea of the Microsoft Time Machine. There you go into the past ("Loading Ancient Greece - 72% complete") and have your fun. Murder Alexander the Great in his cradle, introduce modern medicine to the Black Death, plant supermarket trolleys in Pre-Cambrian era, teach rap to medieval monks, start the Reformation two centuries early etc. etc. History's your oyster. When you're bored and want to come back, just click "no" when asked if you want to save changes.
Of course, the problems start if you're in a bit of rush. Imagine the scene: Terrified British explorer is chased back to his time machine by a horde of rampaging dinosaurs. Breathless, panicking, he stabs at the controls, desperate to go home. "Do you want to save changes...?" "No! No!" gasps the British man, hitting "enter." "Oh no!" he cries, an instant later, but it is too late. The hour glass shows for a moment. "I meant to say no," says the French pink jellyfish, as he grovels to his ape overlords...
