Kairos-Chronos
Temporal Novice
These points are logical . The thing that makes me uneasy is the requirement for people to have "faith" that something will happen. We have seen from the John Titor hoax that this attracts the wrong sort of people and feeds into all kinds of oddball notions and conspiracy theories. You have set a date 11 years hence. Someone from the future will either turn up or they will not. If they do they better have some serious proof. I will wait and see. I will be very interested to see what motivation your project drums up.
I am not "anti" your project at all, far from it.
I don't quite understand what you mean by people "involved" in the project. It only needs a future time traveller ?Surely if a time traveller turns up he is there for everybody to see isn't he? Or is somebody out to create an event they can sell tickets for and make money?
1. I am not familiar with John Titor. But I agree with your sentiment certain ideas have a tendency to attract troubled people and it is desirable to avoid this.
2. Faith is a word with many meanings depending upon its context and the perspective of the reader. Perhaps I should have used the word “confidence” instead to avoid any religious connotations
3. For this experiment to succeed a time and position need to be enshrined into future history. Every single person that contributes to this increases the probability of success. 10 messages are more effective than 1. A million messages are more effective than 10. One million messages “composed/created” in 1 million different ways are more effective still
Kairos-Chronos is an endeavour perfectly suited to our time. We live in a very interconnected world, a world in which like-minded people can collaborate, a multimedia world, a world in which an idea and information can spread like a virus.
In other words if successful Kairos-Chronos will be a catalyst for this event rather than control it. The ideal outcome would be a large network of people with many nodes/groups of people creating their own fully autonomous implementations. A centralised control scheme could not hope to create the level of diversity and output required to achieve success.