A silent world, a few picoseconds beyond traditional timeline. Not much wiser, but slightly out of sync allows for some quiet. To stop time is a frivolous wish, to reverse it doubly so. For if you are able to dam the river of linear change, the breaking flood would have the potential for catastrophic consequences. All for a negligible space, a void, a wormhole in the stream. As to reversing the stream? It may be comical, but the rush to the beginning would cause serious inertia in all areas of consequence, effect would precede cause.
No, No, we either always have time travel or we never will. It is odd to think that humanity is never quite satisfied with the time it has been given. People will gladly spend a years of their life's imcome in exchange for the medical assistance to live a prolonged 5 months. Life is worth the living, just that most look at it the wrong way around. The forms of 21st century transportation that shaved incredible amounts of time and provided greater range of mobility were taken in stride by the younger generations, who demanded more.
No, we never quite comprehend the sacrifice, sweat, and trials that our progenitors underwent to build the foundations of yesterday that tomorrow's innovation will be built upon. It is like The start of Norton Juster's Phantom Tollbooth, in which Milo is neither satisfied on his trip to school or at home, always wishing he was at the other end. Ultimately, Milo witnesses the city of Illusion, which was once beautiful Reality. One day, a man discovered he got throughout his day much faster if he looked down at his shoes. Slowly, the idea caught on and all of Reality's inhabitants began to follow suit. However, most of the pleasure of traveling from one place to another is seeing all the scenery that is between the start and the destination. With no one to appreciate the beauty of reality, the city faded into invisibility.
Alternately, in Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Arthur Dent's house is to be demolished for a highway's construction. In which people would go from point A to point B and go back again, the way they do already, but only much faster! The universal irony is that earth itself is destroyed by an extraterrestrial race in order to clear the way for a interstellar hyperspace-way. Later on in the increasingly erroneously named trilogy, Arthur visits a miserable alternate universe version of earth called "What Now?" It was named iafter the first words that were spoken by the first humans who emerged from the primordial ooze.
People never seem to find satisfaction with their current station of life. It is our best trait and our greatest weakness. It is beautiful when we use this urge to improve lives, it is detestable when we did it on the backs of cheap labor, or to destroy life in a more efficient manner.
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