Mm, but then you have the age-old “interference having unintended consequences” problem. The “enhanced” cavemen might use that knowledge to get a head start on developing holodecks…or they get a head start on wiping out the populace in warfare or the such enabled because of that given knowledge.
But, you know, it’s all that ethics junk T-Rex isn’t too bothered with.
If I remember correctly, anthropologists say that climatic conditions weren’t right for humans to need writing until a few thousand years ago, after the creation of agriculture. If you traveled back in time and taught a tribe of hunter/gatherers to read and write they’d likely just forget it in a generation or two because they don’t have a use for it.
Ida No over 3 years ago
Which is easier – inventing a time machine, or inventing a holodeck that can simulate inventing a time machine?
scyphi26 over 3 years ago
Mm, but then you have the age-old “interference having unintended consequences” problem. The “enhanced” cavemen might use that knowledge to get a head start on developing holodecks…or they get a head start on wiping out the populace in warfare or the such enabled because of that given knowledge.
But, you know, it’s all that ethics junk T-Rex isn’t too bothered with.
Ed The Red Premium Member over 3 years ago
If I remember correctly, anthropologists say that climatic conditions weren’t right for humans to need writing until a few thousand years ago, after the creation of agriculture. If you traveled back in time and taught a tribe of hunter/gatherers to read and write they’d likely just forget it in a generation or two because they don’t have a use for it.