Assume that the future can change based on your actions, so any historical information that you bring along with you from the intervening 25 years may quickly drift out of the new realities history.

Edit: also assume that you can be given a healthy 21-year-old body if you want or take your previous self’s place.

Further, identification will be provided for you if you were not born at that time.

  • @sciencesebi@feddit.ro
    link
    fedilink
    177 months ago

    Information is power. A simple smartphone loaded with major historical decisions, sports results is enough to make you a billionaire. Take some tech textbooks to stay ahead of the game, maybe some newly developed medicine.

    • BizarrolandOP
      link
      fedilink
      87 months ago

      Given that the AIDS epidemic was still in full swing at the time, just being able to teach medicine makers how to make pRep would make you a billionaire just from the licensing fees.

        • BizarrolandOP
          link
          fedilink
          97 months ago

          Prep is an anti-hiv pill.

          If you engage in practices likely to expose you to HIV you should use prep.

          If you have pRep in your system and you are exposed to HIV there is a high likelihood that the pRep will destroy the HIV and prevent the infection from ever taking hold.

          Of course, it won’t do anything to protect you from the other potential negative consequences of risky behaviors that would expose you to HIV, but considering that it helps protect you from one of the worst potential outcomes it’s essentially a godsend.

    • @SteveTech@programming.dev
      link
      fedilink
      English
      57 months ago

      Just thought Kiwix seems like it’ll be handy here, it lets you download Wikipedia and some other websites, and they have an Android app to view them.

      (They have a web version too, which I actually selfhost for if the world ends or something /s)