1/ Done with @JamesGleick book on Time Travel. Recommended because it dares to try tho it doesn't entirely succeed http://amzn.to/2x2QEMN
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8/ For a lot of reasons, the intersection of speculative/hard science, and literary and SF fiction that is TT is of practical interest today
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9/ In part I like Gleick because his sense of what is important to think about at any given time matches mine. It's partly validation vanity
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10/ But there's a there there to it. Time travel is on cusp of practical importance, not because it is literally feasible, but because...
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11/ ...Temporality (and atemporality) in general are getting to be complex, interesting, and of engineering interest now (VR/AR, blockchain)
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12/ So trust me, and if not me, trust Gleick. Time travel is worth thinking about and taking seriously now, despite still being impossible
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