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Originally Posted by redpoint5
I'd get to work introducing the technology and concepts that exist today, to advance where we'd be at today.
I'd also foil the 9/11 attack, though it still seems difficult to figure out how I would go about doing that. My memory on other things is fuzzy, so I may be able to stop other things like the Vegas shooting, but my timing might be wrong.
At some point the government would become convinced you are either a. actually from the future and an asset that cannot be left to their own devices, or b. implicated in everything predicted to happen. I'm curious how that would play out.
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I have long wished that I could take the best technologies behind iPads and Android and design an iPad with the most popular apps--and USB-C--ten years early--and all of the technology necessary to produce it.
It might cost a million dollars per tablet, but if you can get celebrities and CEOs to start buying them, economies of scale should make them widespread much earlier.
I would also want to at least publish the information necessary to lead to the most important medical and technological advances since then--and, if I go back far enough, release a "Phantom Menace" parody before it comes out, with Jar Jar, Anakin's dialogue, and other aggravating parts, but not the good ones, so either George Lucas finds unique ways to ruin the franchise or I sue saying "I had thirty-seven hits on my blog, which I posted six months before your movie came out! Obviously you stole my ideas!"
As for 9/11:
https://i.imgur.com/3GF5Xsi.mp4
SWAT the terrorists before they leave their hotel room.
The Las Vegas shooter?
SWAT him, too.
My ideas about 9/11 have evolved over time, but I always thought I would find an... unhoused human... and offer $1,000 to call 911 and claim one of the future terrorists was murdering someone--and then have the carbon-based-lifeform between homes take a bus to Florida.
I completely forgot about that episode of SG1. I just watched it here:
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6kman0
When you mention time travel and Stargate I thought of the "Groundhog's Day" episode, but I need to track down the one they mention, when MacGyver sires John Crichton.