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Imagine: Google itself could find proof of this, given that it's organizing the world's information. In fact, Google is one of the only entities that could actu
by corry 12y ago
Imagine: Google itself could find proof of this, given that it's organizing the world's information. In fact, Google is one of the only entities that could actually 'prove' this out.
What would they do if they identified the time traveller? Locate him/her? Use his knowledge to further their plans? The knowledge may be potentially world-changing; whoever finds the traveller will be in a very powerful position.
Script idea: Eccentric googler finds proof of this and the company secretly finds the individual. Wild goose chase ensues. State actors get involved. I'd pay to see that.
If this had already happened, would we even know?
- mhandley 12y agoAlthough Google is best placed to find any time traveller, the time traveller is even better placed to go back further in time and correct the situation to prevent the knowledge becoming widely known. Thus if time travel is possible, it's almost a certainty that Sergey Brin is a time traveller.
- TheOtherHobbes 12y agoNeat idea. But if you were a time traveller, what would you use Google for, and why? I'm not convinced you're going to be Googling the future pope, because it's trivially easy to Google the current one. The possible telltales are not obvious.
- stcredzero 12y agoI would suspect that a time traveller might have all of the world's information searchable, locally stored in his implanted neural lace nanodevice. No Google searching necessary.
- lcnmrn 12y agoWhy do you need Google? Get a web crawler, look for things that relate to your queries and you're done.
- rasz_pl 12y agoIt did happen, there is even a movie about it http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1862079 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1862079