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If you could send a book back in time for a person to read, what book would it be and who would be the recipient? (programming.dev)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Quite like to send the Complete Works of William Shakespeare back to the guy himself. Seeing he's already written it that would free him up to write a whole bunch more.

Would be cool to do the same thing with certain scientists.

[–] nitefox 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Or it could hamper his writing to the point he won’t be as good

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

True. A lot of our plans could backfire.