If you had a one-way ticket to Jan 1, 1999 that departs on Jan 1, 2024, and you are allowed to bring whatever fits into a backpack with you, what would you bring to use to take over the world, and how - eviltoast

Assume that the future can change based on your actions, so any historical information that you bring along with you from the intervening 25 years may quickly drift out of the new realities history.

Edit: also assume that you can be given a healthy 21-year-old body if you want or take your previous self’s place.

Further, identification will be provided for you if you were not born at that time.

  • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world
    2·
    11 months ago

    Get every flagship CPU and GPU from 2000 to today that I can get my hands on.

    What use is that? Without the asml duv lithography machine, no one could duplicate it. And you’d have no motherboard to plug those chips into.

    • Mnemnosyne@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      21·
      11 months ago

      Honestly, I don’t know for sure since I’m not an expert; my reasoning was the hope that being able to examine the entire line of advancement would allow the necessary technical knowledge to be extracted and duplicated. I knew that just bringing the latest one would definitely do nothing.

      • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world
        1·
        11 months ago

        If looking at a 5nm chip was all that was needed to make a copy, China would already be selling RTX 4090 clones.