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The flip comment “If Time Travel was possible we’d be up our ears in time travelers telling us all about it!” misses a key point. We *are* up to our ears in time travelers, except they wouldn’t think of themselves as tourists. They think of themselves as refugees.

So see, there is a lot of future out there, not all of it good. Sometimes the only way out is a lateral movie through the 4th dimension, dig? Actually doing it is hard enough, and the side-effects can be dangerous, deadly even. It takes years to master effective time-travel and the cost of getting it *wrong* are high enough to discourage only the most talented, brave, stupid, or desperate.

A lot of these temporal flotsam dudes are pretty addled to begin with, even if they established a sold identity in their chosen time-line, suddenly being jerked into a bold new frame of reference is confusing at best. Getting into a new time doesn’t guarantee success in it, as the deeply-confusing modern human bones that pop in paleontology can attest.

Not surprisingly, the successful ones tended to work in the creative fields. A lot of their works were called fantasy or science fiction or horror. Fiction, in other words …but that’s the thing, the thing everyone is missing, they’re not stories.

They’re *dairies.* Half-faded memories of the future.

So, hold on. The 21st Century is about to play out, and we’ve already know some of the notes.