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On 7/1/2018 8:29 PM, Wayne.B wrote:
On Sun, 01 Jul 2018 14:23:30 -0400, wrote:

If you let me loose in the 19th century with all of my 20th century
knowledge I would be a millionaire, if not a god. ;-)

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What would you "invent" first? And would you be able to build it,
promote it, and sell it? A lot of the infrastructure for that sort of
thing, that we take for granted, would be missing. The past is
littered with brilliant inventors who couldn't get their product off
the ground even though it was superior.



I'd just be a 19th Century Nostradamus traveling around forecasting
the future. Once people realized I was always right I'd make a fortune.

I can just imagine telling people that in 2016 a guy who builds
skyscrapers named "Trump" would become the 45th POTUS.

They'd ask, "What's a skyscraper?"


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