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You gain access to a comprehensive electronic encyclopedia from 50 years in the future, but only for one hour.

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Earth's surface tips 90 degrees over the course of the next few years. The north pole is now in the middle of the Pacific Ocean (155 degrees west latitude), the south pole is in the middle of Africa (25 degrees east latitude), and the equator roughly runs through Nova Scotia, Venezuela, and the center of Indonesia.

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100% prefer You gain access to a comprehensive electronic encyclopedia from 50 years in the future, but only for one hour.

brett  

that's full on retarded. . . .

You gain access to a comprehensive electronic encyclopedia from 10 years in the future, but only for one day (24 hours).

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38% prefer You gain access to a comprehensive electronic encyclopedia from 50 years in the future, but only for one hour.

jonnyt_  

Some questions:
1) Can I write a program which spiders the encyclopedia to keep it after the hour?
2) Do I get advance warnings for when this is going to happen, or is it just "bam, you have 1 hour starting now!"
jonnyt_  

Or even printing? Can I print off as much as I can in that hour, or do I only get what I can remember.
whargolflorp  

i doubt the OS of the encyclopedia would be compatible with our current OSes. so no spiders, unless you find an article on how to write spiders for this OS.

rodeirk1990  

it should be possible to upload the entire thing to the internet right? effectively speeding up technological advances.
KevLead  

its called a screen shot

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