Not Time Travel - Time Inflation!
People think that just by inventing time travel, all their problems would be solved. Yea, right. For every solved problem they'd just make two more problems. I thought time travel would be an amazing ability to have, too. But then I thought about the reasons for wanting time travel. And they all mainly reduced to: having more time! You know, work for 10 hours at the office, then zap back in time and have a nice cocktail at a beach, and perhaps a vodka-martini later while playing pool, all at the same time I worked at the office. Maybe zap back the third time just to update myself at the office of new thoughts I had while having a smashing time. And zap back in time once more to play tennis with a friend, since we both experienced a fantastic weather during the day, and, well, you never know what the weather will be like tomorrow, so why not having will-had played tennis the past day? See? Only new problems. We'd even have to invent a new tense or two.Instead of time travel I propose something different, something that would have the same effect of being able to do much more in a day: time inflation. That's right: simply inflate the time. Hey, if it's possible with money, then time should be no different. Time is money, right? We should just apply the same economical mechanisms to time, raise the inflation, I don't know, to 10%? That should increase the time's interest rates and result in a general time saving instead of time spending. And after you've saved enough of time, you could afford yourself a nice cocktail at a nice beach party. Splendid idea, isn't it? Only, it's not new. I invented hot water, again.
Another approach would be to invent a device that would change the physical space-time continuum in such a way that time would become inflated. In essence a second would feel a lot longer, although all measurements would tell otherwise. Having an eight-minute instead of an eight-hour workday, because you could do all the usual work in eight minutes instead of eight hours. Well, yes, but dealing with time in an economical sense is stupifyingly easier. But hey - if you have an idea on how to change physical properties of the universe, I'm your man!
posted by AlesS @ 2/10/2008 06:24:00 PM
1 Comments:
You mean time DEflation. Inflation of time will only mean tasks take more time to perform and for instance one hour end up worthing only 20mins, i.e. Each unit time falls in value. One way to induce time deflation could br to punish unnecessary competition. Then time does things more easily.
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