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November 30, 2024 • 17 mins
How would someone who traveled from the past into our present (their future) perceive our world? Prepare to find out.

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome to the Fuzz, where we envision the ideas we'll
all be buzzing about in the future.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
The Fuzz.

Speaker 1 (00:11):
Future as.

Speaker 2 (00:15):
Sure podcasts in the future, in the future, the future,
the Fuzz. While the things we talk about on this

(00:39):
podcast might seem impossible or even slightly insane, so would
basically any piece of today's technology if you talked about
it with a person from the eighteenth century. Imagine explaining
a TV or a drone or a three D printer
to George Washington.

Speaker 1 (00:58):
I think about it all the time. To today's episode,
we're doing something a little different. Instead of traveling into
the future to bring you back a glimpse of what
the world tomorrow will look like, we're bringing in some
visitors from the past to see how they perceive our present,
which is, of course their future.

Speaker 2 (01:20):
Do you get all that? Eh, Yeah, that's a it's
a real like uh, it's a brain twister. Yeah, and
could be considered a paradox to some.

Speaker 1 (01:31):
Could be, could be. But wait, interesting to see, you know,
the perspective of someone from the days of your looking
at today as though it's the future. How will they
view our world and our objects? What will they think
of these things we're gonna find out. So, Patrick, do
you want to kick us off here? Today?

Speaker 2 (01:50):
I would love to transport someone into our time. So
let's go get them step into the time. So today
on the podcast, I brought back with us. Ironically, in

(02:15):
our intro we mentioned George Washington. I brought someone back
from George Washington's time, who is coincidentally named George.

Speaker 1 (02:26):
But it's not it's not George Washington.

Speaker 2 (02:29):
Yeah, you know, I mean, as far as I know,
he's not the first president, but he does have the
same kind of demeanor as what we would imagine George
Washington would have. George. Yes, I know that this is
probably a little weird for you. I'd like to welcome

(02:51):
you to the future. First of all, a pleasure I
think perhaps I may perhaps I may have I'm sorry,
are there bees trapped inside your pillbox? My pillbox? I
assumed that was a pillbox. Surely nothing more than a
few small pills could fit inside. Oh oh no, uh

(03:15):
for our listeners, he's noticing my iPhone iPhone, George. This
is what's known today as a smartphone. A smartphone? What
is it for? And how does this compare to a
less intelligent phone? No, No, it gives people basically everything

(03:36):
they could ever want at their fingertips information, entertainment, recipes. Patrick,
Are you saying that I can open this device and
pull out a meat by or dispense a cup of tea? Uh? No,
recipes doesn't necessarily mean it makes the food, but it

(03:57):
can order food. With this I can summon food, I
can pay for it and transport it without ever leaving
my seat, without ever leaving right here, sitting next to you.
The food just appears as a cloud would appear. Surely
this device cannot simply pluck bread from the air well

(04:19):
close enough. There's a lot going on in there. But
with a few taps of this device, it's delivered right
to your door. Good heavens, So no one must know
well in advance when one may become hungry. Let me ask,
if I were to summon food today, on what day

(04:40):
would it arrive? Well, that's the thing, George. Oftentimes it
arrives in mere minutes, minutes so it could be prepared
within the hour. Even better, it arrives already prepared. What
you might think me flatheaded, but I cannot fathom how
anything more than a simple potato can be procured and

(05:03):
delivered in minutes, much less how it could be prepared
in the same amount of time. Be truthful with me, Patrick,
Have you employed witches in the future. No, it's not witchcraft.
Things are very different two hundred years in the future.
Let me show you something else. This is what's known
as a camera, but some do use it as a mirror,

(05:25):
or what you would call a looking glass. It takes photographs.
I see, where does it take them? It doesn't really
take them anywhere. Watch tap your finger on the white spot.
I'm sorry, Patrick, I seem to have broken your phone.
The looking glass er camera is not moving as I

(05:46):
do anymore. But I must say the image trapped within
the glass is quite vivid, fantastic. Even that is the
photo I was talking about. It captures a moment in
time and shows them to you instantly. It can store hundreds,
if not thousands of them. I know it's probably a
lot to take in in your time. Cameras haven't even

(06:07):
been invented yet, but in the not too distant future
there will be photographs. Yes, that is fascinating. But even
more fascinating is this involuntary facial contortion that occurs when
I hold the camera here and nothing happens. But if
I raise my arm slightly, I suddenly cannot help myself

(06:27):
but to tilt my head and purse my lips. Ah. Yeah,
that's what we know or are called duck facing. Duck facing,
it sounds grotesque. Is it contagious? Have I contracted some
sort of time travel related ailment? No, you're fine. Duck
facing is just one of the many selfie trends of

(06:48):
picture poses that popped up from the younger generations here
in the future. So far no one has been hospitalized
or died from any of them. Oh good, you mentioned
something called a self fee. Is that a tax? No,
a selfie is a picture you take of yourself using
your own camera. Oh, I understand a self e. The

(07:12):
letter E not a selfie. This is wondrous. When I
was a child, a book containing all of the words
in the English language was compiled and housed in a building.
And today I learned of a device that could hold
that book and countless others, hundreds of photos, as well
as the means to summon food and if what you

(07:35):
say is true music to think. Until today, a hot
air balloon was a sight to behold. And yet the
sight of my own face in the palm of my
hand has diminished that experience a considerable amount. Well, I'm

(07:56):
glad I could give you that experience, George, But now
as time to take you back to your own time.
Let's hop into the time machine.

Speaker 1 (08:13):
What do you think will happen to George? Now? I
mean having seen this technology and then having to go
back to his world live out the rest of his life.
You know, he'll probably live for another ten years to
a ripe old age of you know, forty six. Yeah,
what then, what do you think those years are going

(08:35):
to be? Like, do you think he's gonna there's gonna
be a day that goes by he's not thinking about this.

Speaker 2 (08:40):
No. I think, just like anything, you know, it's an
experience for a while, it's going to probably eat away
at him, but I think it'll fade at some point.
It'll probably be just like, was that a dream? This
guy came and took me from my slumber, because I
basically did. I woke him up. I was like, who
are you? He's like, I'm George, and then I just

(09:02):
you know, whisked him away into the time machine. So
it could be very, very dream like for him. Maybe
he actually thought it was a dream.

Speaker 1 (09:10):
Yeah. I just try to think if I saw if
someone did that to me right now, Yeah, took me ahead,
showed me something amazing from the future that I knew
I wasn't going to get to see.

Speaker 2 (09:23):
What would that be?

Speaker 1 (09:24):
Like, how do I go on? Do I want to
just get back there? Do I like obsessively devote my
life to trying to get my hands on that again
or get that experience?

Speaker 2 (09:33):
Yeah, it's very I mean, you know, you think about
the you know, the book the time Machine. You know,
it's like, first he tries to convince everyone that it happened,
that he saw it, that this is what the future brings,
and then he spends all of his waking moments trying
to get back. Maybe he tries to build a time machine.
Who knows. Maybe that's where our time machine came from.

(09:54):
We don't know.

Speaker 1 (09:55):
Yeah, that's a good point. He may have been the
original inventor of Yeah, based on the six experience.

Speaker 2 (10:01):
That's the paradox, right, paradox what came first? The chicken
or the egg?

Speaker 1 (10:05):
I like that you just gave him the ultimate you know,
the smartphone. You went right for it, the thing that
obsesses all of us right now, we're all staring at you.
Just shoved it right into George's hands, said, have at it.

Speaker 2 (10:19):
Yeah. Well I didn't really give it to him. I
showed him just the bearer. I mean, I think if
I would have showed him everything, it would have blown
his mind. He would have just a would have melted
into a pile of goo. And it wasn't even really intentional, right,
I like I sat down with him, you know, it
took a little bit of like, here we are. I
know that this is foreign to you, but this is

(10:41):
what we're going to do, you know, and you can
ask me any questions. And he just like laser focus
on my phone sitting there. So I figure, what better
opportunity than to just, you know, give him a little
piece And if you know the phone is the smartphone?
Is that of this at least time period?

Speaker 1 (10:59):
Yeah, and enlist landscape of apps to explore too. He
could have spent a lifetime digging in there.

Speaker 2 (11:06):
Yeah, in his case, it would have been a lifetime
if he only lives to forty six.

Speaker 1 (11:10):
Yeah, well, let's go grab another fella from the past
and give another experience that someone won't forget. So step
with me, Patrick into the time of show. So I

(11:30):
have here with me today Thomas from the seventeenth century, Tommy,
as I like to call him, My name is Thomas.
All right, relax, Tommy. So what I'm doing with Thomas
is I'm gonna give him an object from our time period,

(11:51):
let him, you know, explore it, try it out for
a little bit, and then I'm gonna let him talk.
And I told him just kind of described your people
back in your time, this thing that you've had a
chance to play with, to try out. And so we're
gonna do that. We're gonna go off for a second,
give him some time with it, and then we're gonna

(12:13):
come back and he's gonna do that. He's gonna talk
to the people of his time. So here we go.
Here's Thomas talking to the people from his type. Ah,
dear friend, let me describe a curious device foreign to
all that we know, a contraption most strange and marvelous. Imagine,

(12:34):
if you will, a great circular headpiece, like the eye
of a giant, a fixed to the wearer's brow, much
like the helmet worn by a knight. Fashion from materials
so light and fine as to be beyond the comprehension
of our humble artificers. Upon putting this device to the eyes,

(12:55):
the world that one knows, be it the great forests
of our fair land or the bustling streets of the city,
fades away entirely. In its place, a new and strange
vision emerges. One is transported to land's most fantastical and distant.
Without the slightest movement of the body, the eye doth

(13:17):
behold places of unearthly beauty, or sometimes horrors that would
make the heart quail. But this is no mere trick
of the senses. Nay, the device is enchanted in a
way most befuddling. The images that fill the mind are
not of paintings or drawings, but of such vividness and motion,

(13:39):
as though the mind itself had taken leave of its
flesh and walked into these other worldly places. And as
if it were not wondrous enough. There are sounds, too,
voices and melodies that seem to come from all about,
as though the air itself has been woven into this vision.
But mark my words, this contraption, though wondrous, may also

(14:04):
be a temptation. For what is it to live in
a world of mere fantasy, when the earth beneath our feet,
though far less perfect, is real. And what becomes of
a soul should it grow too accustomed to living in
these dreamlike lands?

Speaker 2 (14:19):
All right?

Speaker 1 (14:26):
That was Thomas from the seventeenth century. Patrick, Do you
know what object, what thing? What piece of technology from
our time? Thomas was talking about what he was interacting with.

Speaker 2 (14:39):
It seemed like it was like an oculus rift, like
a meta that was exactly it.

Speaker 1 (14:43):
Yeah. Virtual reality headset.

Speaker 2 (14:46):
Yeah, that would be terrifying, I think to a person
from that time period. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (14:53):
You just put it on and you feel like, oh
my god, am I transported to another world.

Speaker 2 (14:59):
Even for people today when they try it on, they're like, wow,
that's amazing. But could you imagine someone from that time
period who's never experienced technology period.

Speaker 1 (15:09):
Yeah. One of the great things about this experiment is
we get to really mess with people from the past
and watch them just be scared out of their mind
and think it's all wizardry, and you know, their soul
is being stolen from them. He'll probably go back and
tell the story, probably after he tells five or six

(15:30):
people and they look at him like he may need
to be locked up. Or maybe he even gets locked up.
He'll probably stop telling people about this and maybe even
wonder if it actually happened.

Speaker 2 (15:40):
Yeah, that's the best part, you know, because it's so fantastical.
Thomas and George really have that quality to them, right,
they're astonished. They're sort of looking at things that we
take for granted as magical. In a way. I love
the idea that Thomas sort of presents, which is it's
the temptation of that thing.

Speaker 1 (16:00):
Yeah, he understands, even in his time period, even with
his sense of wonder, he understands the potential addiction of
today's technology.

Speaker 2 (16:11):
You didn't You didn't let him sneak anything back though, right, don't.

Speaker 1 (16:15):
I don't think so. You know, I didn't want to
mess up the space time continuum. Anything I learned from
Back to the Future, that's bad. We saw what happened
with the Almanac, so I was trying to keep things
pretty tight.

Speaker 2 (16:27):
Both of those are pretty good interactions with a couple
of fellas.

Speaker 1 (16:32):
We don't get any ladies, some gentlemen from the past.
Maybe next time, you know, who knows, if we'll let
other people in again, we'll see what happens. But it
was an interesting experiment.

Speaker 2 (16:40):
All right. Well, that's all for this episode of the Fuzz.
Tune in next time for more of tomorrow's buzz. Today, Today,
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