Given a Choice, When Would You Have Liked to Have Been Alive?

Can we choose the future? April 5, 2063. I'd like to see the day of first contact of the Vulcans to earth. (Must be a Trekkie to get that!) :ROFLMAO: And then immediately be transported 300 years further into the future.

I can't think of any time from the past I'd want to live in. Oppression, disease, primitive medical treatments, wars, etc. I like my modern conveniences.
 

Medusa said:
I think I would have fit better in 1940's America.
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But there was a horrible war in the first half of that. On the other hand, when that was over, there was a lot to enjoy, much of which is gone today. But in the end we play the hand that we are dealt, and until the last 20 years, I lived experienced some wonderful things that happened in my lifetime that hadn't happened before.
 
I don't think I would choose any time other than now. Some attractive things about the past, but I appreciate modern conveniences, like SF, and sanitation and healthcare too much to give it up. And too much uncertainty in the future to want to go that way.

I would however very much appreciate the chance to visit other times and places, just so I could come back when I wanted to.
Medusa said:
Can I just say though, the shoes in 1940's were so cute.
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Well there is that, LOL
 
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Medusa said:
So true.

Can I just say though, the shoes in 1940's were so cute. 😇 ♥️ 👠
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Yes, there was a lot of "cute" even in spite of the war. Plane travel was not popular yet, and everyone traveled by train. My father took me to Union Station in Chicago to pick up my uncle coming home from Kansas City, where he played in a symphony all winter. He was showing me all the trains that converged at the station, and of course each railroad had their own passenger color scheme, and my father was telling me which train went where. The engines were so big and colorful. It was really exciting, and of course my uncle would be on one of them.

One train was disembarking and it was filled with soldiers and sailors coming back from the war, and one of sailors spotted a woman waiting for him and swept her up and they were laughing and kissing. Others were doing that too. I asked my father why were they doing that, and he told me they had been away from each other for a very long time. I may have been two or three. It's one of my earliest memories. I understand what was happening now, but back then it was just a fascinating mystery.
 
If I lived in a different time in the past, I'd like to do so with my family. I wouldn't give them up. I would also miss our healthcare today, the music & probably a few other things. But if you didn't know about them in that time, I guess you wouldn't miss them then.

If I was in the past & did know about things available to us now, I don't think I would miss the TV & computer very much & some of the BS going on now. As @SandyR said (paraphrasing here), there wasn't a time that didn't have some kind of challenges.

The mid to late 1800s was interesting to me in history classes, so I guess that time.
 
Speaking of Canada, the period between 1960 and now! It has been mostly peaceful which is a rare thing in history! There was the cold war, of course, and Afghanistan but compared to previous eras they were just pebbles in a pond.

I feel so sorry for my mother's generation. She lived through WWI, hyper inflation, the Great Depression, WWII (and loss of her husband), devaluation of money as a new currency was introduced. Thank God she had a few good, peaceful years after that!
 
Right now. The use of Ai has the potential for people to create the greatest music, literature, art, computer applications, medical treatment, scientific advancement, engineering, etc... that we've ever seen!

It also has the potential to wipe out the human race, but there are always issues with new technologies.
 
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