I think he’d adapt quite quickly. He’d bloody love Twitter “140 characters you say? Why, that is my medium!”. Dude would be dropping perfectly formed bon mots all day, every day, and have twenty bajillion followers.
And I suppose he’d quite like being able to live his life however he saw fit. There’s no Ballad of Reading Gaol in Oscar’s 21st century life.
Yeah, it’s become the love that won’t shut up.
I’d bring Benjamin Franklin back - I think we would be extremely interested in our modern world, and the most able to handle it.
I’d get Twitter just because of Oscar Wilde. What fun! Put all his musings into book form and it would be a best seller.
Curiosity would have me choose Jesus or Mohammad, but I would be most interested in getting to know Edison.
The shear volume of inventions, and his thought processes intrigue me.
Try as I might, I cannot think of anything that comes near his genius at “discovering” what is now considered as basics of technology.
Somehow, he was able to think of something, and then create the practical “real” invention.
Geez - can you imagine infomercials from him today?!
That’s it. Bring on the hate.
For me, Nikola Tesla. Put him in charge of the Department of Energy.
Darwin
Another one for Jesus, with Mohammed tossed in if we can get two.
He’s always the first one I think of…probably because of this Bewitched episode I saw when I was a kid.
Which you can watch here
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Franklin was a popular one, I’d want Y-Chromosome ‘Adam’, or Jefferson. Shakespeare’s a good suggestion too.
Kurt Vonnegut
Escoffier, Careme or Taillavent ~ just to see what kind of meals they would prepare with today’s ingredients and techniques.
Ranhoffer doing molecular? Priceless!
James Madison.
Who better than the primary author of the Bill of Rights to help us interpret phrases like “the right of the people to keep and bear arms”, “cruel and unusual punishments”, “abridging the freedom of speech”, and so forth, for modern times.
I like the Ben Franklin suggestions.
But to me, the answer to this question has always been Laura Ingalls Wilder. I guess because of the way she described the “modern” technology of her time…railroads, electric telegraph, sewing machines…I just think she’d be fascinated to see how the world has changed.
Of course I know she lived long enough to see a lot of it for herself…cars and television and she even flew on an airplane. I’m talking more of the Little House era Laura.
Where they came from, they were living a perfectly ordinary life - I’d guess they’d want to go back (for the most part).
Christopher Marlowe–just think of the stuff he could get away with now.
Samuel Beckett. 
I don’t think this sounds like a nice thing to do to most of these people.
Since Franklin’s been said, I’ll go with Mark Twain. He’d probably insist on his wife and daughters coming with, so that’d be three or four extra seats depending on the year.
What’s up with you guys, are you all gay for boring dead dudes or what!
I’ll have a month of debauchery with Marilyn Monroe please.