Your smartphone suddenly gets wikpedia from 50 years in the future but only for 1 hour.
What do you look up?
(question from Reddit (http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/d7axx/your_smartphone_suddenly_gets_wikpedia_from_50/))
National and European lottery numbers for every week for the next year. And uh, the Wikipedia News section. All of it. Including the archives going back 50 years.
Lottery money is used as startup for a private intelligence firm, using the data from Wiki News to build credibility.
And this private intelligence firm will be called HIMEOBS Inc.
I can't find any listings on winning lottery numbers on Wikipedia itself, just (perhaps) some in the external links.
But uh, let's say they are there in the future-wikipedia (could be, after all), I wonder if you'd win every week, people would get wind of it and they'd get, or perhaps even just frame you for fraud?
Also check out the top voted answer in the Reddit thread. Pretty good answer.
"How did that big crack get in the moon?
Quote from: Triple Zero on September 01, 2010, 10:28:12 AM
I can't find any listings on winning lottery numbers on Wikipedia itself, just (perhaps) some in the external links.
But uh, let's say they are there in the future-wikipedia (could be, after all), I wonder if you'd win every week, people would get wind of it and they'd get, or perhaps even just frame you for fraud?
Also check out the top voted answer in the Reddit thread. Pretty good answer.
Correct about the lottery numbers. OK, I'll download Oscars and various very well known horse race winners and put down large bets on those instead.
As for fraud, I believe they need to have
proof of it, and "getting answers from the future on your smartphone" is not actually illegal. But if it does become such a bother, I'll get other people to claim it, in return for a cut (after I'm rich enough to hire people who will make sure I get my money, if they try a double-cross of some kind).
Clever move on the bets. Would also allow you to spread bets along different categories a bit, so you don't get noticed as easily.
I'd check if dub-step is still considered a music genre.
OR
I'd check to see if I became famous enough to be on Wikipedia, because I'm sure if I could learn things of future wikipedia, then I'd gain at least a little bit of notoriety from using that knowledge.
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.
1) A thumbnail sketch of the past 50 years.
2) My obituary.
I would quickly begin downloading as many pages as possible. I wouldn't spend any time reading, just downloading.
the first articles I'd grab would be:
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_presidents
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_discoveries
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/21st_century
/me looks up "Chuck Norris". WHERE THE FUCK IS THE DATE OF DEATH!? :evilmad:
Oh, I'd also get a list of major natural disasters, terrorist attacks, and all that, just to make sure I'm not in the area at the time.
Quote from: Rumckle on September 01, 2010, 03:01:24 PM
Oh, I'd also get a list of major natural disasters, terrorist attacks, and all that, just to make sure I'm not in the area at the time.
That's a good one
Also, a list of medical advances might be useful.
Porn.
Quote from: Triple Zero on September 01, 2010, 10:06:40 AM
Your smartphone suddenly gets wikpedia from 50 years in the future but only for 1 hour.
What do you look up?
(question from Reddit (http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/d7axx/your_smartphone_suddenly_gets_wikpedia_from_50/))
Roll D20 for initiative.
I would get 50 years of correct march madness brackets
Quote from: Triple Zero on September 01, 2010, 10:06:40 AM
Your smartphone suddenly gets wikpedia from 50 years in the future but only for 1 hour.
What do you look up?
(question from Reddit (http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/d7axx/your_smartphone_suddenly_gets_wikpedia_from_50/))
Let's see...Myself. And football.
oh also all the world cup winners
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.
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'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.
Quote from: Lord Derp Esquire on September 02, 2010, 04:54:56 AM
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...
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 (http://download.wikimedia.org/enwiki/latest/enwiki-latest-pages-articles.xml.bz2)
Yes, I cheat.
Canadians always cheat. You're decended from the French.
We actually get the cheating part from small bits of AmericanTM 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.
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
I'd read up on our new alien overlords.
Quote from: Doktor Blight on September 01, 2010, 02:37:09 PM
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.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on September 01, 2010, 03:24:05 PM
Quote from: Triple Zero on September 01, 2010, 10:06:40 AM
Your smartphone suddenly gets wikpedia from 50 years in the future but only for 1 hour.
What do you look up?
(question from Reddit (http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/d7axx/your_smartphone_suddenly_gets_wikpedia_from_50/))
Let's see...Myself. And football.
THIS!
Quote from: Rumckle on September 01, 2010, 03:01:24 PM
Oh, I'd also get a list of major natural disasters, terrorist attacks, and all that, just to make sure I AM in the area at the time but at a safe distance.
Fixed, because I have morbid curiosity and love explosions.
True, though I think it might look a bit suss though if you are in the vicinity of every terrorist attack in 50 years
Quote from: Doktor Blight on September 02, 2010, 06:10:42 AM
Quote from: Lord Derp Esquire on September 02, 2010, 04:54:56 AM
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...
I had time travel fantasy much like that. I would get sheet music for a wide variety of songs that I like from over the past 50 years or so. Learn them all and then time travel back to Woodstock, get a band together, and totally blow everyone's minds. Then I would continue to make new music of different genres while always being careful to release a song just before that certain style of music got popular. That way it would look like I had "pioneered" a million different genres of music. I would be remembered as a musical genius. And I could hide a bunch of references to 9/11 in my songs to totally fuck with Alex Jones.
Quote from: Lord Derp Esquire on September 03, 2010, 01:25:45 AM
Quote from: Doktor Blight on September 02, 2010, 06:10:42 AM
Quote from: Lord Derp Esquire on September 02, 2010, 04:54:56 AM
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...
I had time travel fantasy much like that. I would get sheet music for a wide variety of songs that I like from over the past 50 years or so. Learn them all and then time travel back to Woodstock, get a band together, and totally blow everyone's minds. Then I would continue to make new music of different genres while always being careful to release a song just before that certain style of music got popular. That way it would look like I had "pioneered" a million different genres of music. I would be remembered as a musical genius. And I could hide a bunch of references to 9/11 in my songs to totally fuck with Alex Jones.
:lulz:
Quote from: Lord Derp Esquire on September 03, 2010, 01:25:45 AM
Quote from: Doktor Blight on September 02, 2010, 06:10:42 AM
Quote from: Lord Derp Esquire on September 02, 2010, 04:54:56 AM
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...
I had time travel fantasy much like that. I would get sheet music for a wide variety of songs that I like from over the past 50 years or so. Learn them all and then time travel back to Woodstock, get a band together, and totally blow everyone's minds. Then I would continue to make new music of different genres while always being careful to release a song just before that certain style of music got popular. That way it would look like I had "pioneered" a million different genres of music. I would be remembered as a musical genius. And I could hide a bunch of references to 9/11 in my songs to totally fuck with Alex Jones.
:lulz: :lulz: