• Chainweasel@lemmy.worldEnglish
    121·
    6 months ago

    I have a book at home on my shelf which is just a collection of all of Nikola Tesla’s notes and findings.

    I’m sending it to Benjamin Franklin.

    • kender242@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      6 months ago

      I confused Franklin for Edison (!) and almost gave you a downvote for an excellent troll.

  • kromem@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    6 months ago

    A kid’s picture book explaining the scientific method to Epicurus, who was the closest in antiquity to figuring it out for himself.

  • I Cast Fist@programming.devOP
    7·
    6 months ago

    I like to imagine giving a big World Atlas of some sort to any seafaring culture around 500AD would result in interesting consequences, possibly with it becoming a real treasure. Maps are like pictures and valuable even if the places’ names can’t be understood

    • seth@lemmy.world
      1·
      6 months ago

      Please reconsider avoiding Newton if you are offered the opportunity to send a book back in time. He was a narcissistic dick who used his influence to fuck over other academics (Leibniz, Hooke), and plagiarized and stole the work of others without crediting them (Flamsteed).

  • andrewta@lemmy.world
    51·
    6 months ago

    The complete history of the stock market. I’d send it to me for my 21st birthday. With a certain letter proving it was me from the future. With the last chapter being the history of bitcoin.

    • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
      5·
      6 months ago

      I wonder how long it would take to start diverging. There’s a maximum volume of trades you can make before you start having an impact on the prices yourself. Knowing the future perfectly means eventually you would be the most dominant force on the market unless you tempered yourself. But having a book is just having a snapshot of a single reality that your reality will start diverging from.

      The show The Travelers addresses this a bit, but I think even that one underestimates how much a new player will full knowledge of the future market would affect that future market.

      • andrewta@lemmy.world
        3·
        6 months ago

        I loved travelers. Great show.

        And you have a good point. Would have to be very careful on how much I used that book.

        • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
          3·
          6 months ago

          It would be cool if they did that second series the finale teased, though they’ll need to come up with some new twists. Though tbh, I’d watch a new take on the old ideas, too.