/cyoa/ - Choose Your Own Adventure

This is an interesting one; I'm surprised there are no responses.

The Stasis Field is tempting, although I recognize the fact that humanity is more likely to nuke itself into oblivion than get to a Star Trek utopia in the distant future, so it's a no-go. I'll take it ONLY IF the traveling man can guarantee that it'll be a nice place wherever I show up, and then I can live in that utopia.


If he cannot or will not, I'll take the History Jump, but I would not use it right away. I would keep it secret and safe for probably about a year — long enough for me to write down everything important to me on a laptop computer. My memories, my experiences, my novels, my life and personality and being as an adult. Taped to the laptop is a note bearing simple instructions of how to use it and where to navigate to get started piecing myself back together. I'm sure I'll figure out a few other useful small things to take with me.

Then I'll take it back through time, to my own life when I was about seven- or eight-years old. Even though I won't remember anything of the past ~20 years, with the extensive information I put in the laptop, I can regain most of what is useful and valuable.

When I'm done, I'll print out everything on there for safekeeping and then destroy the harddrive. I will then have my parents sell the rest of the laptop, for a few million dollars, to IBM or Apple or Microsoft. I'm sure they'll be delighted to acquire hardware with 20 extra years of advances, and it will have the added effect of boosting the tech world by an approximate amount.

I then get to relive my late childhood and teenage years in comfort, without making all of the same mistakes. I'll have a jump-start on my writing career and the smarts to excel in school.