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John Titor

 
By egoslam at March 17, 2006 - 1:35pm | Prophecy

Well because SOMEBODY had to start out this topic, I'll post an old favorite of mine: John Titor.

From Wikipedia:
John Titor was the name used for a purported time traveller from the year 2036 that posted on several time travel-related Internet bulletin boards during 2000/2001, making many ambiguous, but seemingly falsifiable, predictions about events in the near future and giving an account of his supposed native time period.

Here is a search for John. Read up. I'm always looking for new opinions on this one.

John Titor Google Search

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You are a prophet

By Doug on March 19, 2006 - 3:02am

How interesting!

Without looking at your post, I /just/ downloaded the CoastToCoastAM interview with the lawyer for John Titor's mother that aired last month. I started playing it and surfed here. It's playing in my Zinf player right now.

And I read your post...

Wow!

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Mr. Titor

By The Doctor on October 16, 2006 - 10:35am

I think I have some audio recordings of radio shows that discussed Titor way back when. I might have to go searching for them in my archives soon. I might post them to a BitTorrent tracker if they are of decent quality.

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The Doctor [412/724/301/703]
Antarctica Starts Here.

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Storing quantum singularities in a footlocker sounds risky.

By Max Szabo on March 20, 2006 - 6:20am

If those microscopic, contrarotating black holes ever get loose, I'll be willing to bet even money that they either (a) cause a rapid depreciation in housing prices in the area of immediate effect prior to fizzling out in a burst of quantum foam, or (b) collapse the whole planet into a cricket-ball-sized mass of superdense matter that will continue to eat up nearby material until it works its way up into a nasty little brown dwarf that will wait smugly for space aliens to discover in a billion years after they work out the point of origin of the Voyager missions.

I like this Titor story, however. There's a nicely prosaic, down-on-the-farm quality to his postings that does a lot to deflect the instrumental questionings of critics.

It does all reek a little too much of a post-'12 Monkeys' LAN-party sci-fi discussion gone wrong, however. (Or right; they're making a movie, aren't they?)

Very nice detail work, though. The portable nature of the IBM computer; the ecological emphases; the frank rejection of 'time-profit' questions; the appeal to the very liberating multiverse scenarios, and so on.

The best part of the myth (and I use the word intentionally, and respectfully) is the rejection by Titor of the idea that - in general - one person could do a great deal to change the future, in spite of the obsessions of SF writers with the theme. This is interesting, because it suggests - to regular, everyday people - that they might want to see how they feel if they regard themselves for a moment as time-travellers from the future with the potential ability to turn human history on a dime. The reality is that, without the resources of a government program directed by powerful individuals that are convinced of your story, or without the ability to cause a noticable effect in history (say, via assasination or scientific invention) that a time-traveller is in much the same boat as everyone else.

Nice story, though.

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I caught the tail-end of the Titor posts as they appeared.

By The Doctor on October 16, 2006 - 10:37am

I always found it interesting that Titor always refused to respond to the trolls and flamers that gravitated toward the Coast to Coast AM forums when he was posting there. He was not afraid to say that he did not know something, and he sometimes told people where to start their research if they wanted to follow up on something.

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The Doctor [412/724/301/703]
Antarctica Starts Here.

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John Titor. There's a name

By ColdDeadHands on June 29, 2007 - 5:42pm

John Titor. There's a name I've not heard in a long time...

Very well crafted story, despite a few inconsistencies. The photos, the way seemingly disaprate pieces fit together, the whole "the government needs this old computer" premise is just screwed up enough to be believable. Interesting indeed.

Should make a movie based on it. No one can claim copyright on the story without randing it as a hoax, it's perfect. :)

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