Re: If someone gave you the entirety of Wikipedia from 100 years in the future for only 10 minutes, what would you read?
geni <[email protected]>
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On 12 February 2013 23:41, David Gerard <[email protected]> wrote: > On 12 February 2013 23:05, Carcharoth <[email protected]> wrote: > > It's interesting. If you were in 1890, and you got ten minutes' access > to an Encyclopedia Britannica from 1990 - what would you look up? "gold" perhaps in the hope of finding where future reserves would be. In terms of technology I guess Horseless carriage, telephone, and railroad for the more practically minded. For the more fanciful (or at least those in touch with sci-fi pulp or otherwise) Time travel, Steam man, space travel. Bit early for Free silver. -- geni _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l