[MUD-Dev] Time travel and Logging

[Koster]

On Tuesday, January 06, 1998 9:49 AM, 
Ling[SMTP:K.L.Lo-94 at student.lboro.ac.uk] wrote:
> I'm gonna butt in here having read only a few of the posts in this 
thread
> so forgive me if I repeat someone else:
>
> I read a short story either by Asimov or Philip K. Dick about time 
travel.
> This historian knew such a machine existed and wanted to have one of 
his
> own for observing the past.  Anyway, to cut a short story shorter: 
the
> twist in the end was that the machine could only view the past 100 
years,
> however, it could be used for viewing the past 0.1 second so in 
effect, it
> could to observe the now anywhere, anyhow.

Isaac Asimov. It ends with the (paraphrased) line, "Hope you enjoy 
living in your goldfish bowl." I think it is called "The Dead Past." 
Generally considered to be a pretty famous work of SF.

-Raph