I've always had a fascination with time travel. The idea of being able to traverse back to different eras and ages just excites me. Maybe it's because I've always had a thing for history and archaeology. I remember poring through my dad's copies of National Geographic magazines and wondering at the vibrant colours of photographs of different places, cultures and people in the world from different millennia and in the then present. Or maybe it was my huge crush on Indiana Jones when I was a kid. (Who could resist the roguish Harrison Ford?)
If you were to ask me which time frame I would pick, it would be hard put to decide. From ancient Egypt to the Mayans, from medieval England to England of the 1700s and 1800s, even to the times of ancient China, India and the Malay Sultanates. I would love to live and breathe the world then (ok minus the viruses and other air-borne or water-borne diseases). Of course this whole time travel thing has to come equipped with like a language chip that can be embedded in my brain to enable me to communicate in the language of the time.
Even watching 'Night at the Museum' the other day gave me a thrill. (No, not because of Ben Stiller in uniform). But being able to see history literally come alive. Wouldn't it be great if history lessons of the near future could be conducted in simulation classrooms (much like the rooms in Star Trek) where you could feel, touch and taste the time of your choice. Maybe I should really be a history teacher...
Beam me up Scotty!!
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