Erase & Rewind
Sunday, 30. October 2005, 14:11:00
Many have dreamt of a device (which I envision looking like a remote for a videotape recorder) that allows you to “rewind” the last several minutes or hours. Push the button, and you cancel your last mistake, careless move, take back what you have blurted out. Like an existential Undo.
The idea isn't new, there have been books and movies about it. But here's what I just thought about: right now nothing contradicts the existence of such devices. The only thing I know is that I personally don't have one. If someone has a device like this and has already used it numerous times, all the others wouldn't have noticed anything. What if it's already a thousand and first branch of my existence spawned because someone on another continent kept pushing the button again and again until the reality came to the shape they wanted?
Who knows, maybe the people said to be unbelievably lucky because everything in their lives happens just perfectly — maybe they have simply found the remote for this life?
По-русски: Erase & Rewind
The idea isn't new, there have been books and movies about it. But here's what I just thought about: right now nothing contradicts the existence of such devices. The only thing I know is that I personally don't have one. If someone has a device like this and has already used it numerous times, all the others wouldn't have noticed anything. What if it's already a thousand and first branch of my existence spawned because someone on another continent kept pushing the button again and again until the reality came to the shape they wanted?
Who knows, maybe the people said to be unbelievably lucky because everything in their lives happens just perfectly — maybe they have simply found the remote for this life?
По-русски: Erase & Rewind
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