Travel to the past but can bring just one piece of modern tech with you

[Ricken]

A solar panel

 

[slaphappygamer]

I’d take my ebike and go back to 1992. Me and the neighborhood kids would play tag on our bikes. Electric bike would’ve been dangerous though. Back in that day, bike rides were much safer. Us kids were taught to ride following the arrow. Nowadays, no one cares about signs and traffic laws.

 

[emergencyspinach]

a zhu zhu pet to amuse the plebs

 

[FAST6191]

Does medicine count? If so, I'd take the smallpox vaccine back to the 1800s

Jenner was in 1790s though. At that point you have a marginally better option (for the few thousand say doses you might carry) than the cowpox inoculation or older still variolation.
Edit. Missed the last page where others already went.

I will stand by the general principle though. Proper biology lab is something I might struggle to recreate if I did go back in time vs all the rest from the earlier post.

 

[BlazeMasterBM]

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"By Jove, a wheeled rodent !! Witchcraft !"

 

[emergencyspinach]

"By Jove, a wheeled rodent !! Witchcraft !"

no please, don't burn my precious hamster and i at the stake!! he's friend, not foe!

 

[blazskiii]

People would go crazy about the phone, since people have no idea what it is, imaging the ringtones goes off.

it's so interesting

 

[M7L7NK7]

Yesterday, with an ipad with the winning lottery numbers

 

[SylverReZ]

Sony Walkman

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I remember those back in the day.

 

[The Real Jdbye]

Paper doesn't count as modern tech, right? So I'd bring detailed instructions on how to build everything I would need in the past. And my one tech item would be my laptop, cause there's no way I'm building one of those, and it's the most versatile piece of tech I have. Charging it up would of course be a challenge, so I'd have to use the instructions I brought to build a generator.

No idea where I'd go. Probably not too far into the past, as much as I love dinosaurs I don't think I would survive against them for very long, and the further back I go the higher the risk of altering the future in unpredictable ways. Might be fun to check out the middle ages.

 

[Luke94]

Do Sega 64X count or not?
Sega could do it,but instead of Sega Saturn hardware add-on they could do something more similar to Sega Neptune,but instead of multiple add-ons mounted into one(several in one-3-in-1).

 

[Ryab]

Paper doesn't count as modern tech, right? So I'd bring detailed instructions on how to build everything I would need in the past. And my one tech item would be my laptop, cause there's no way I'm building one of those, and it's the most versatile piece of tech I have. Charging it up would of course be a challenge, so I'd have to use the instructions I brought to build a generator.

No idea where I'd go. Probably not too far into the past, as much as I love dinosaurs I don't think I would survive against them for very long, and the further back I go the higher the risk of altering the future in unpredictable ways. Might be fun to check out the middle ages.

Main thing to know when charging it really is the voltage and amperage it needs. Which most laptops just have a sticker on the bottom showing that. Controlling that rate is the big thing.

 

[Tuhr]

Going back to the Stone Age with a torch lighter so the people think you're a sorcerer fire god or something.

 

[tech3475]

Going back to the Stone Age with a torch lighter so the people think you're a sorcerer fire god or something.

I think you'd be legally obligated to reinact The Crazy World of Arthur Brown:

 

[Alexander1970]

Travel to the past but can bring just one piece of modern tech with you​

Nothing,absolutely nothing.....
...and honestly,I would love to stay in that (past) Time.....

 

[Luke94]

Embarking on a journey to the past with a single piece of modern technology presents a fascinating conundrum. The choice would hinge on the era visited and the intended impact. A smartphone, brimming with knowledge, could revolutionize education or medicine, yet its functionality would be limited without connectivity. Conversely, a solar-powered device could provide sustainable energy, irrespective of the time period. This hypothetical scenario underscores the transformative power of technology and invites reflection on which innovations truly hold the potential to alter the course of history. It's a thought experiment that marries the allure of history with the promise of modern science.

Speaking of smartphones I saw some YouTube video of camera that resembles modern smartphone during match of Mike Tyson. It was eighter camera of classic technology of video recording or rather it was real modern smartphone in the 1990’s.

 

[AncientBoi]

Paper doesn't count as modern tech, right? So I'd bring detailed instructions on how to build everything I would need in the past. And my one tech item would be my laptop, cause there's no way I'm building one of those, and it's the most versatile piece of tech I have. Charging it up would of course be a challenge, so I'd have to use the instructions I brought to build a generator.

No idea where I'd go. Probably not too far into the past, as much as I love dinosaurs I don't think I would survive against them for very long, and the further back I go the higher the risk of altering the future in unpredictable ways. Might be fun to check out the middle ages.

Generators require gas. But you're in the times of where some of the gas is made from [dinosaurs].

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Generators require gas. But you're in the times of where some of the gas is made from [dinosaurs].

Now thinking on Wind Generators. Now I could start building a home with lighting, And the PC that I brought with me [with music, vids and porn on it]

 

[Luke94]

Embarking on a journey to the past with a single piece of modern technology presents a fascinating conundrum. The choice would hinge on the era visited and the intended impact. A smartphone, brimming with knowledge, could revolutionize education or medicine, yet its functionality would be limited without connectivity. Conversely, a solar-powered device could provide sustainable energy, irrespective of the time period. This hypothetical scenario underscores the transformative power of technology and invites reflection on which innovations truly hold the potential to alter the course of history. It's a thought experiment that marries the allure of history with the promise of modern science.

I also saw in some kind of YouTube video two women talking in phone that is similar to modern smartphone in some kind of Charlie Chaplin's Circus so it was like almost 100 years ago. Who knows when first phone booths showed probably in the first place for instance in UK. Probably they still left in UK nowadays...etc.

 

[LeoTCK]

Maybe I would take game "prototypes" and other stuff on a laptop with me to the past...wonder how that would change history.
What if I'd then show an alpha or beta demo of Unreal to Tim Sweeney and Cliff Bleszinski before they got to make it. What kind of paradox would occur....

 

[Kwyjor]

Am I the only one here who read Dr. Stone..?

The answer, apparently, is a platinum-powered Haber-Bosch plant, which allows for the industrial production of nitrates and thereby fertilizer (and also gunpowder). In the manga they make do with just the tiny amount of platinum, but realistically you'd probably want something at least a little more elaborate, and probably suitable documentation too.

Everything else (including sulfa drugs) can be magicked together from raw materials by the resident super-genius. Apparently.