QotD: Anywhere But Here

Would you rather go back in time or visit the future?
Submitted by Auds.

Going back in time would be so much more satisfying than going to the future.

For one thing, there's the whole financial security through careful use of information.  If Back to the Future II taught us anything, it's that nothing can possibly go wrong if you have a sports almanac and connections to bookies.

Sure, there's a decent chance that I might change the now-future, but it's a pretty small chance that I'd make myself not exist or something.  I mean, maybe they decide to spell Pepsi with a y.  It'd be a little weird, but no sane person drinks the stuff anyway.

If I headed to the future, there's an excellent chance that I would learn something that I wouldn't want to know.  Of course, that could happen in the past, too.  Imagine walking in on Great-uncle Herschel getting it on with Great-aunt Margie.  But hey, maybe she was hot back then.

Seriously, for all those who are curious about the future, I think there are enough mysteries in the past.  Did Shakespeare write the works of Shakespeare?  Was Benjamin Franklin as sleazy as we thought?  Which came first--the chicken or the egg?