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Back to the Future<br />
By: Jonny Bird / Here’s Jonny<br />
If you could go back in time, would you? How far<br />
back, and for how long? Would you jump into<br />
Doc Brown’s DeLorean and rev it to 88 miles per<br />
hour to go back to high school?<br />
I think a lot of us would. But why?<br />
Dreaming of time travel dates back to long before our grandparents,<br />
or even great grandparents were spinning a top or fishing with a<br />
cane pole. The concept of time travel by a machine was prominently<br />
popularized by H.G. Wells’ 1895 story The Time Machine, but the<br />
thoughts of time travel itself came much earlier.<br />
18<br />
January 2024<br />
In Mark Twain’s 1889 novel, A Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, a<br />
Connecticut engineer gets a knock on the noggin and is transported to<br />
the court of the famed King Arthur. There, he uses his knowledge of the<br />
future to attempt to modernize the past, eventually even rivaling the<br />
great Merlin himself, who appears to be a fraud.<br />
But why is time travel so appealing?<br />
It’s been romanticized about and warned of in stories, movies, and<br />
songs. Admit it. You’ve thought of going back to your younger days and<br />
fixing a few things with the knowledge you now have.<br />
In the movie, Peggy Sue Got Married, Peggy Sue attends her<br />
25 th high school reunion on the verge of divorce from her high school<br />
sweetheart and faints while being crowned as the reunion queen. When<br />
she wakes up, she has been transported back to her senior year where<br />
she quickly decides to correct a few mistakes.<br />
Or would you decide to go into the future to see what’s new and<br />
exciting? Maybe the cure for cancer is just around the corner. Maybe<br />
war, poverty, and hunger have been solved.<br />
Maybe the Starship Enterprise is giving vacation tours to the tropical<br />
(and passionate) planet, Risa. That last one is for my Trekkies.<br />
I could say that the past has no appeal to me, but I’d be lying. I would<br />
have bet on Buster Douglas, bought Google, and never asked out Kim<br />
in high school. But that’s another story.<br />
Jonny Bird is the entertainment host of all Vegas Voice shows. Have<br />
an idea or suggestion? Contact Jonny via email:birdlandmusic@<br />
hotmail.com