Temp-Agent1
Temporal Novice
Slow down, folks.
Ok, more explanations are required I take it? First of all - "Autocorrect" was a feature on smartphones and such in my day, but it wasn't termed 'Autocorrect', it was simply known as the automatic dictionary. Secondly, Text-speak is unfamiliar to me. I don't recall shortening words and phrases to make digital communication faster when I was younger - no one I knew did. Was that just my naivety? I don't know. There was a lot more to be concerned about in my 2014 than worrying at the time about digital grammar.
Yes - from the bits I've read about John Titor - our time displacement technology is the same. At least, it has the same designation. However, C204 Time Displacement Unit is the term given to it by General Electric. That's not the name that we gave it. There of course was a C201, C202, etc, and 4 is the latest version of the technology. This is what convinces me that Titor was a genuine article; how could he otherwise have known the displacement unit designation given to the device by GE?
Please be aware, I have not read everything this Titor fellow posted online. He put a lot of material up here, and I have only scanned the highlights. Being from where I am, and having seen what I have seen, Titor's story does not hold the same......fascination.....for me, as it does for you.
I'm not an American, and the average citizen has very little contact with people from abroad in my time. There is no international news service, no CNN, no official news coming into the general populace on the state of American affairs in 2037; everything I know about America from the mid 2020's onwards comes mostly from hearsay and what I've been told by those in Trading and who have contact with the council, who have spoken directly with American Traders and contacts. As such, I have never heard of a Temporal Recon unit. Do they exist in America in 2037? Perhaps. I'm sure what passes for Government in the USA is doing *something* with the Time Displacement Technology, but what exactly they do with it is a little outside of my purview.
I am employed most directly by the Natural History museum (Yes, it still exists) and specifically, I work under the Temporal Research Commission, funded by the Museum, which in turn is funded by the The Representative Council of of England and Wales. I do not live in the heart of the city, and wouldn't want to. Instead I commute from just outside of London. I did not become a historian until after the Economic Collapse, when many industries fell apart and many people were forced to look to other area's for paid work. Research positions became more prestigious with the advent of time displacement technology and time travel as a reality. Since I was already a graduate, it wasn't so difficult for me to get onto a new academic course and qualify as a historical researcher.
So much interest in my age! Forgive my 'ripe old age' comment ha ha! My wife is always telling me I play up my 'old age' too much. I can confirm for you, I am 55. Which admittedly, is not 'old' even by your 2014 standards. What doesn't help too much is the field I work in. There are many researchers, archeologists etc that I work alongside who are a great deal younger than me, and remember very little about this time period, those that were born. It constantly makes me feel a little older than I actually am.
Life expectancy - technologically - should be higher than it is in 2037. However, the technology to repair a vast range of illness's and injuries is not openly available to all. Like the displacement technology, it is limited, and has to be distributed based on priority. I am lucky in that my value as a researcher at a key institute has afforded me priority healthcare in recent years. But alas, there are still those who could be much healthier and happier if we had an abundance of resources to distribute to everyone equally. I am confident, however, that as we re-establish ties with the rest of Europe and trade becomes more plentiful, our economy will strengthen, and this will change.
Ronnie - please read my previous posts. I did not say that your worldline was exceedingly close to my own; quite the contrary, there's a4 to 5 % divergence between our worldlines. In a previous post, I outlined some events that occurred from 2008 - 2014 on my worldline that have not occurred on yours. I could certainly tell you some things that happened in my history between 2014 - 2020 etc, but they would have little bearing on what the next few years hold for you.
Which is the ultimate irony isn't it? Surely if I could accurately predict a number of key events for you, and you could sit back and watch them unfold exactly as I predicted, it would erase all doubt from your mind that I am who I say I am. And thus is the unfortunate nature of time travel. You cannot travel back along your own worldline. No matter how close another worldline may be to your own, it is NOT your Worldline, there will always be *some* divergence between the two, and so you can never predict exactly what is going to occur with 100% accuracy. Look at what this Titor fellow predicted for you? And yet, you have no American Civil war, no nuclear weapons have been launched, Your world ticks along in a similar fashion to the way it has for the past 15 years.; yet he is held in high regard as a potential 'time traveller'. I would surmise that Titor's Worldline was closer to yours than my own, but he could not tell you exactly what was going to happen in the coming years, because there was still a divergence between your world and his and he knew that.
All I can say for sure, is that our Worldlines clearly diverged in the early 2000's. Perhaps you are beginning to see the start of what is to come, and your world will follow a path similar to my own, just at a slower pace. There is major civil unrest in America, is there not? You Are in a Global recession, aren't you? Similar, but not the same. One thing that is marching along at a very similar pace is your scientific endeavours. CERN was constructed, they are conducting the exact same experiments here as they were in my 2014. But your governments are still warring with foreign nations, they are still pushing everything they have into defence and weapons development. I ask you, if CERN and the governments that fund the project had discovered the ability to control and create Microsingularities, right now, today, in 2014 - do you think they would make that public knowledge?
Ok, more explanations are required I take it? First of all - "Autocorrect" was a feature on smartphones and such in my day, but it wasn't termed 'Autocorrect', it was simply known as the automatic dictionary. Secondly, Text-speak is unfamiliar to me. I don't recall shortening words and phrases to make digital communication faster when I was younger - no one I knew did. Was that just my naivety? I don't know. There was a lot more to be concerned about in my 2014 than worrying at the time about digital grammar.
Yes - from the bits I've read about John Titor - our time displacement technology is the same. At least, it has the same designation. However, C204 Time Displacement Unit is the term given to it by General Electric. That's not the name that we gave it. There of course was a C201, C202, etc, and 4 is the latest version of the technology. This is what convinces me that Titor was a genuine article; how could he otherwise have known the displacement unit designation given to the device by GE?
Please be aware, I have not read everything this Titor fellow posted online. He put a lot of material up here, and I have only scanned the highlights. Being from where I am, and having seen what I have seen, Titor's story does not hold the same......fascination.....for me, as it does for you.
I'm not an American, and the average citizen has very little contact with people from abroad in my time. There is no international news service, no CNN, no official news coming into the general populace on the state of American affairs in 2037; everything I know about America from the mid 2020's onwards comes mostly from hearsay and what I've been told by those in Trading and who have contact with the council, who have spoken directly with American Traders and contacts. As such, I have never heard of a Temporal Recon unit. Do they exist in America in 2037? Perhaps. I'm sure what passes for Government in the USA is doing *something* with the Time Displacement Technology, but what exactly they do with it is a little outside of my purview.
I am employed most directly by the Natural History museum (Yes, it still exists) and specifically, I work under the Temporal Research Commission, funded by the Museum, which in turn is funded by the The Representative Council of of England and Wales. I do not live in the heart of the city, and wouldn't want to. Instead I commute from just outside of London. I did not become a historian until after the Economic Collapse, when many industries fell apart and many people were forced to look to other area's for paid work. Research positions became more prestigious with the advent of time displacement technology and time travel as a reality. Since I was already a graduate, it wasn't so difficult for me to get onto a new academic course and qualify as a historical researcher.
So much interest in my age! Forgive my 'ripe old age' comment ha ha! My wife is always telling me I play up my 'old age' too much. I can confirm for you, I am 55. Which admittedly, is not 'old' even by your 2014 standards. What doesn't help too much is the field I work in. There are many researchers, archeologists etc that I work alongside who are a great deal younger than me, and remember very little about this time period, those that were born. It constantly makes me feel a little older than I actually am.
Life expectancy - technologically - should be higher than it is in 2037. However, the technology to repair a vast range of illness's and injuries is not openly available to all. Like the displacement technology, it is limited, and has to be distributed based on priority. I am lucky in that my value as a researcher at a key institute has afforded me priority healthcare in recent years. But alas, there are still those who could be much healthier and happier if we had an abundance of resources to distribute to everyone equally. I am confident, however, that as we re-establish ties with the rest of Europe and trade becomes more plentiful, our economy will strengthen, and this will change.
Ronnie - please read my previous posts. I did not say that your worldline was exceedingly close to my own; quite the contrary, there's a4 to 5 % divergence between our worldlines. In a previous post, I outlined some events that occurred from 2008 - 2014 on my worldline that have not occurred on yours. I could certainly tell you some things that happened in my history between 2014 - 2020 etc, but they would have little bearing on what the next few years hold for you.
Which is the ultimate irony isn't it? Surely if I could accurately predict a number of key events for you, and you could sit back and watch them unfold exactly as I predicted, it would erase all doubt from your mind that I am who I say I am. And thus is the unfortunate nature of time travel. You cannot travel back along your own worldline. No matter how close another worldline may be to your own, it is NOT your Worldline, there will always be *some* divergence between the two, and so you can never predict exactly what is going to occur with 100% accuracy. Look at what this Titor fellow predicted for you? And yet, you have no American Civil war, no nuclear weapons have been launched, Your world ticks along in a similar fashion to the way it has for the past 15 years.; yet he is held in high regard as a potential 'time traveller'. I would surmise that Titor's Worldline was closer to yours than my own, but he could not tell you exactly what was going to happen in the coming years, because there was still a divergence between your world and his and he knew that.
All I can say for sure, is that our Worldlines clearly diverged in the early 2000's. Perhaps you are beginning to see the start of what is to come, and your world will follow a path similar to my own, just at a slower pace. There is major civil unrest in America, is there not? You Are in a Global recession, aren't you? Similar, but not the same. One thing that is marching along at a very similar pace is your scientific endeavours. CERN was constructed, they are conducting the exact same experiments here as they were in my 2014. But your governments are still warring with foreign nations, they are still pushing everything they have into defence and weapons development. I ask you, if CERN and the governments that fund the project had discovered the ability to control and create Microsingularities, right now, today, in 2014 - do you think they would make that public knowledge?
