Go back to when the time machine was created, ensure I have multiple copies replicated, ensure sole possession of them. Proceed as desired. (Yes I get I'm trying the "I wish for more wishes" card, but this wasn't an excluded scenario).
Joking aside, how would any of us supposedly alter said history? If you go to a certain timeframe, you would need the means to carry it out (including currency usable for that timeframe (extremely difficult if you aren't allowed more than one jump). Even investing in that case would be EXTREMELY difficult. The only means you truly would be able to gain any sort of upper hand is in selling knowledge, not merely of "the future" which may no longer be, but of "technology, blueprints/patents/etc".
Essentially I'd go back with a massive stack of the most critical patents of the latter 19th, and early 20th century along with a massive crate of textbooks of innovations encyclopedias/etc made around that window. Go back in time to the 1820s-1840s or 1870s, roll in with those bad boys to the Northern US.
Think of how introducing agricultural technology to the US of the late 19th/early 20th century far sooner would have done for example...
Perhaps it would lead to a more or less stable world. I'm not sure, but it might have lead to shorter timeframes in which dark aspects of the past would linger around. Making a ton of money off of innovations (which unlike the notion of sporting events/etc that might never happen) aren't prone to being altered by causing a time paradox. Introducing a bulk of technological innovation (in chunks bit by bit) likely would drastically change the geopolitical history thereafter too. WWI might not even happen, or a number of wars, whereas some might happen that never did (multiple incidents in the 1820s-1870s between US/GB could have sparked a third war). Give the US fully functional coal power & furnaces of the 1890s and 1900s 30-50 years sooner, and far more difficult to steal blueprints without the net....
09-May-2017 04:56:50
