A friend on another board was showing me a photo he took of a Lockheed C-5M Galaxy military aircraft which he took at an airshow. He stated on how he was surprised at how huge the aircraft is when seen up close. I stated how fun and interesting it would be if it was possible to bring one of the Wright Brothers forward to the present day and take him to an airshow, I can only imagine his joy and wonder at how far his idea has come.
So, the hypothetical is you can bring one person from history forward to the present day for twenty-four hours for the extremely important purpose of taking them out for the day and showing them around the modern world, for those purposes only, no asking them about their own era or trying to influence their opinions (other than what you show them), if you bring Hitler forward for example you could take him to a Holocaust memorial museum, for all the good it would do, but you can’t harm him or otherwise directly affect the timeline.
So (a) you can bring one person forward for twenty-four hours before they’re sent back and (b) you’re taking them on a day-trip to somewhere of your choice, who do you bring forward and why?
I’d bring Alexander Graham Bell to the present, to answer all the robo-calls I get. And to see how many people have gone babck to using a telephone to send telegrams (text-content messages).
Bell, shortly after patenting the telephone actually expressed a certain amount of misgivings about some day in the future, when this wonderful device would be used for trivial conversations about people’s personal affairs., instead of to foster industrial and economic advancement.
I’d probably go with, if I understand his “actual” name correctly, Rabbach Jeshua ben-Joseph, much better known by his Greek name and title, the Christ Jesus of Nazareth. Assuming he could speak English, his first response would probably be, “Who is this ‘Jesus’ person they keep talking about?”
His second would be, “These people are doing what in ‘my name’?”
Or possibly, “the is the new kingdom?” - there’s a school of thought that he was an apocalyptic prophet who believed the world would end/new kingdom would be created within a few decades of his ministry.
