re: If you were suddenly send back in time 100 years...

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The problem for a lot of ideas is that there wasn't the tech in 1914 to build it. There was no machine around that would build a microprocessor (and they probably had no mines for some of the rare earth metals). You couldn't bring about the atomic bomb early for the same reason.

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Exactly.

You could be and endless source of ideas for books, movies, advertising, and song lyrics.

The problem is that it is unlikely that anyone would listen to you. You would be labelled a nut.

I would try to advocate using more air power, using available planes, to eliminate entrenched troops. Stopping trench warfare would save tons of lives.

Oil

It was mostly being used for kerosene 100 years ago

In 1914, I would be the greatest auto mechanic and welder in the world. I would provide just enough innovation in those areas to gather some seed money and invest it in TX mineral rights and Los Angeles real estate. As those milliions started to roll in I would build the biggest, most well funded movie studio and media empire the world had ever seen. That vast influence would be channelled into establishing my progeny as America's premier political dynasty. If I accomplish all these things without being hanged, in my later years I would invent rock and roll and cocaine addiction.

if it's 1914, I'm buying stock in Coca-Cola

Fleshlight

I'd steal McDonald's business model and use the profits to buy up real estate in the Bay Area.

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Late 70s and early 80s

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Not even close to 100 years ago.

Thanks for playing, you've wasted your spin.

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You could be and endless source of ideas for books, movies, advertising, and song lyrics.

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Watch the trailer for Hot Tub Time Machine 2. They use this concept. BTW, this movie looks much funnier than it should be.......

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