Rules:
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The time traveller is able to travel backward and forward through time (max forward is 2074) and they can only transport things that can fit in a small backpack.
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You can choose when the 3 hours begin but it has to be in 2024 and once it has begun the timer can’t be reset or stopped.
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They will answer to the best of their ability but imagine this is a random person from 2074.
I would ask them to bring me newspapers or hard drive with even more news/data on sports and stocks. Is there ever any other answer?
I would also ask them to keep to their personal bubble because they likely have germs I have no immunity to and vice versa. We don’t need covid-2074 decimating the present day.
In a non capitalistic future there would be other answers…
In which case the newspapers brought back would tell me that and I could strategize for what sort of non-capitalist future it is.
Headed towards a Star Trekkian post-scarcity economy? Or a post-doomsday device anarchist hellscape? Anything in between? I would still like to know.