OK. I don’t want to be too greedy and travel through time, or live forever. I’d be happy with just a machine that could freeze time so that I can get all my stuff done with the extra time. I’m happy to age more quickly, so there’s no free time. Anyone else feel like this?
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Doesn’t help now that it’s winter. Now I can’t really go out in the evening to sweep up the leaves in the garden or go for a run (well, I could but it’s a bit spooky). It would be nice to freeze time around 3 or 4pm. But not on Mondays because who needs longer Mondays?
Isn’t that just another way of asking yourself whether you are efficient enough in what you do?
As a child I read such a short story in a magazine. A boy got an ability to freeze time and started using it more and more often (during tests and exams, for example). And then he started to notice that he looked older than his classmates for some reason…
I know of good herbal solutions. Unfortunately time slowing down does not then equate to getting any more done.
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What would you do with all the time you saved?
I mean it could be done, just get in your car and drive up to the speed of light.
Strange there was a DUST short scifi movie where a telescope was sent out to space faster than light and when turned towards earth it could see into the past.
You don’t want to do that. We’d all be a lot older when you got back. Don’t have nightmares…
w/ Brian CoxThis is basically slowing down the play speed in RPG video games. Faster simulation speeds don’t allow to make optimal use of labor and resources. So, slow down the game, produce as much laborers and soldiers as the rules of the game allows 
Back to real life, I’ve felt I can no longer work 100%. If I want to deliver 40+ hours a week to employer plus work on my own stuff, I end up going to bed at 2 or 3 in the morning. Since my stuff is more important than anything from the employer, I need to go down in hours. I plan to start with 90% by 2027 and see how it goes.
EDIT: I guess the feeling of not having enough time is caused by assets and other responsibilities. Some years ago I had nothing to think about beyond party, bike and work. These days, managing own assets takes time.
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Unfortunately, that works backwards: everybody else would be doing stuff faster than me and I’d be even more behind.
I have read a few science fiction stories where a spaceship was involved in a battle, then flew away at a distance faster than light speed so they could watch the battle and learn from it.
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So this is helping your behindedness?
That sounds an interesting read.
That means something else in German!
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I was wondering - passing of time is a guage for us to get stuff done - activity. If time stops, do we freeze with frozen time?
I thought this would be a thread about stopping the relentless march toward AI, worsening freedoms, lowering IQs, debased politicians and scandals. And basically regressing back to a time when people still felt they had some control over their own futures.
As it currently stands I have no idea what kind of a future my kids will have, whereas when I was at school, I did.
That’s left-behindedness.
Which isn’t what you wrote.
I see that differently. When I was at school I could not have imagined how life would look like in 2025. I think kids today have a better idea of the changes that are likely to occur in their lifetimes.
It will be a fantastic time, sleek and modern, just like all times were, they will believe tat they are ar the pinnicle of hunan development because they wont know anything else.
Could this only be that we were more optimistic when young?
No idea how old your kids are, but any sassy teenager has everything figured out. Only issue is that dumb adults don’t get it.