![]() ![]() Invent nuclear reactors, you invent nuclear meltdown. Unfortunately, when you invent a new technology, you invent a new accident. ![]() He'd planned a test run by sending his chrononauts back to Goettreider's lab on that celebrated July day in 1965. So, Victor, Tom's genius father, had plenty of time to invent a time machine and time-travel tourism. Although Tom admits there were still moral, emotional, and ontological problems, people had plenty of time to work on them. ![]() So there's plenty of time for people to improve themselves and the things around them. Solar, wind, and hydropower become "quaint low-fidelity alternatives." Enormous problems like pollution and climate change vanish. When you have a clean machine like the Goettreider Engine, there's no need for dangerous nuclear power or murky coal- or oil-powered energy solutions. The engine, actually a generator, "harnesses the constant rotation of the planet to create boundless energy." In that world, Lionel Goettreider invented the future on July 11, 1965, Tom says, when he created the so-called Goettreider Engine. An only child and a likable screw-up, Tom's been a remarkable failure, even though his world offers tremendous opportunity. ![]()
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