The Hangout: If you could time-travel 20 years, which way would you go?

Kerry-Anne Allerston

I can’t decide if I want to live in the past or in the future! I know, right? Someone out there is rolling their eyes and saying, “Just live in the now.” Nope, that’s not the deal. The teleporter machine has arrived and you can either go back 20 years or go forward by 20. Gosh, I just don’t know what I’d pick. Conundrum much?

There’s so much I’d like to see in the future, like flying cars and weird virtual stuff. I also think we’ll be able to send pictures on WhatsApp and attach a scent to them too. Mind-blowing level 10. Imagine your BFF sending you a picture of their lunch and you can smell that roast chicken. Can’t decide what perfume to buy for Mum? No probs, pop a few options through.

Remember watching Demolition Man with Wesley Snipes and Sylvester Stallone back in the early nineties? That was wild. Some of the more grown up themes happening online in that future world don’t seem quite so mad anymore. Still crazy, but not completely impossible. I think movies were predicting things that felt ridiculous back then and now some of them are almost normal. We were also buying those scratch and sniff T-shirts back in the rave days and they smelled fruity.

That was pretty fun and quite bizarre. Fast forward a couple of decades and I wouldn't be surprised if we could press a button on our phones and a scent popped out somehow.