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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. ;-) === 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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