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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
mjd@mathstodon.xyz ("Mark Dominus") wrote:
It's 1986. You've built a limited but working time machine. Every week, it materializes a small slip of paper with a news headline from 2026.
You arrange a meeting with a millionaire who might be able to help you exploit your source of future information. She looks skeptical, but you ask her to be patient while you warm up the machine. Presently, a bit of paper materializes from nowhere. The millionaire is impressed.
You hand her the slip, wondering what wisdom it will impart. The outcome of a major sporting event? An election result? The name of a successful company that doesn't yet exist?
But the millionaire's expression changes to a scowl. She lets the slip flutter to the floor as she leaves your apartment without another word.
You retrieve the slip and read the headline that your machine has produced.