Your smartphone suddenly gets wikipedia from 50 years in the future for 1hr

[Suu]

Your smartphone suddenly gets wikpedia from 50 years in the future but only for 1 hour.

What do you look up?

(question from Reddit)

Roll D20 for initiative.

[Fredfredly ⊂(◉‿◉)つ]

I would get 50 years of correct march madness brackets

[Doktor Howl]

Your smartphone suddenly gets wikpedia from 50 years in the future but only for 1 hour.

What do you look up?

(question from Reddit)

Let's see...Myself.  And football.

[Fredfredly ⊂(◉‿◉)つ]

oh also all the world cup winners

[Golden Applesauce]

I'd look up the major scientific & engineering breakthroughs of the last 50 years, and pass them on to the right people.  That, and major natural disasters / disease outbreaks.

Also, how to crack RSA.

[Prince Glittersnatch III]

Id look up the plot synopsises of the all the "Best Picture" Oscar winning films for the next 50 years.
Then Id go to work making them.

[President Television]

I'd look up "predestination paradox" and see if the idea still holds any water 50 years from now.
If not, I'd then look up future technologies and "invent" them.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Id look up the plot synopsises of the all the "Best Picture" Oscar winning films for the next 50 years.
Then Id go to work making them.

I had a similar time travel idea with songs I hate. Copyright them, wait for the other person to release it, and then sue them into poverty.

It's so wrong... but so right...

[Remington]

I would tether it to my laptop, arrange for a faster internet connection (20-30 Mpbs minimum), and click this:

http://download.wikimedia.org/enwiki/latest/enwiki-latest-pages-articles.xml.bz2





Yes, I cheat.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Canadians always cheat. You're decended from the French.

[Remington]

We actually get the cheating part from small bits of American^TM DNA that have managed to sneak into our gene pool over the last two centuries.

Having both American and French heritage means that we cheat, then run away.

[DeusExMachina]

Look up any pandemics and the vaccine/cure used. Get a sports Almanac. Check the newest innovations in science/technology and medicine. Check major natural disasters wiki myself then sit back and try to avoid the butterfly effect

[Rumckle]

I'd read up on our new alien overlords.

[Triple Zero]

Cain's got the right idea. I'd look up the winners of the next 50 winners of the World Series.
In 2004 the Boston Red Sox were facing elimination for the American League Championship (meaning that the winner would go on to play the World Series) against the hated New York Yankees, only after 3 of 7 games. The odds against the Red Sox winning the World Series was 250 to 1. THe Red Sox rallied, won the next 4 games against the Yankees, and then beat the St. Louis Cardinals in 4 straight games, winning the World Series for the first time since 1918. If I had put $100 on the Sox after game 3 of the ALCS, I would have walked away with $25,000.

Throw on top of this the results of major elections and such. Yeah.

This is apparently the page you'd want to get http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upset

And yes, I'd start downloading too. But not the whole archive because you can't get that in an hour. And in the 2060 Wikipedia it'll probably be exponentially larger.

If I had a commandline on my smartphone I'd start a few wget commands to download all pages 2-3 levels deep from a choice selection of "List" pages.

Also the 21st century page would be a good one.

[Dysfunctional Cunt]

Your smartphone suddenly gets wikpedia from 50 years in the future but only for 1 hour.

What do you look up?

(question from Reddit)

Let's see...Myself.  And football.

THIS!