Ask HN: What book would you like to read from year 3020?

Posted by pplonski86 on Sunday September 20, 2020 @02:51PM
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If you could read one book from year 3020 what would it be?

I would select elementary physics book. For me the development in physics is worth more than knowing the history or past stock movements.

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Re:Ask HN: What book would you like to read from year 3020? by giantg2 on Monday September 21, 2020 @12:06PM (#24545009)

A detailed history of stock market activity for the years 2020 and 2021.

If I know the future, I can make a ton of money. The other suggestions I've seen are good, but mostly just satisfy curiosity about distant future events. I would rather make an obscene amount of money and work on current day problems or curiosities.

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Re:Ask HN: What book would you like to read from year 3020? by sloaken on Monday September 21, 2020 @02:30PM (#24546795)

Sports records - if I went for Stock market I would probably end up impacting the market, like my buddy Cramer.

I would love to have the tech, but I fear anything useful would either be too hard to understand or too big.

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Re:Ask HN: What book would you like to read from year 3020? by zanecraw on Monday September 21, 2020 @04:48PM (#24548282)

Masks for Dummies: A How-To Book for those too Stupid to Cover their Shit-Spewing Mouth.

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Re:Ask HN: What book would you like to read from year 3020? by scott31 on Monday September 21, 2020 @07:05AM (#24541955)

C++3019

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Re:Ask HN: What book would you like to read from year 3020? by daly on Sunday September 20, 2020 @06:47PM (#24538077)

How to survive heat stroke

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Re:Ask HN: What book would you like to read from year 3020? by pplonski86 on Monday September 21, 2020 @04:26AM (#24541034)

Isn't it available currently? or you are talking about much more extreme temperatures > 60 Celsius?

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Re:Ask HN: What book would you like to read from year 3020? by paulz_ on Sunday September 20, 2020 @06:27PM (#24537967)

A history of space travel.

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Re:Ask HN: What book would you like to read from year 3020? by pplonski86 on Monday September 21, 2020 @04:25AM (#24541030)

I would also be interested in history of space travel but I would rather bet that in physics book there will be information what kind of engines space crafts are using (based on which findings).

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Re:Ask HN: What book would you like to read from year 3020? by emteycz on Sunday September 20, 2020 @04:14PM (#24537021)

A book by the most accomplished philosopher

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