How Useful Are You?

[Beorn]

There is a Twilight Zone episode (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Of_Late_I_Think_of_Cliffordville_%28The_Twilight_Z one%29) where a businessman makes a pact with the Devil, which allows him to go back in time so that he can capitalize off of his knowledge about the future. It turns out though that the businessman’s knowledge about the future is all superficial and thus he is unable to jump start any technological advancements by traveling back in time. This would likely be the plight of most contemporary humans if they were sent back in time. While we rely greatly on technology, most of us don’t know much about how it actually works and where the materials to make it come from.
If you were to travel 2000 years into the past, how useful would you be in jumpstarting technological advancements? This 10 question quiz will help you figure out your technological usefulness. If you do poorly on the quiz, as most people likely will, then just let that inspire you to study up more on how things work and where raw materials come from.


Source (http://theuniverseas.com/how-useful-are-you-take-this-technology-quiz)

How good would you be?

Here is my result.

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[Rachel]

I got the same answer.

[Skandi]

I got the engine type wrong :)
http://www.theapricity.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=2944&d=1255535937
To be honest having studied Geology and Chemistry helped :)
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[anonymaus]

http://www.theapricity.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=2945&stc=1&d=1255536049

[Absinthe]

I got mediocre, apparently my skills would take me no further than the 15th century :p

[Groenewolf]

Same outcome as anonymaus.

[Sally]

I got mediocre, apparently my skills would take me no further than the 15th century :p

Same here!

Right answers: 5
Wrong answers: 5

[Black Turlogh]

Mediocre as well. Gah, all I need is a wood spear and I'm grand.

[Äike]

http://img49.imageshack.us/img49/4568/result.png

[Germanicus]

I have advanced mankind into the 23rd century, with my invention for warp engine technology has taken man to the furthest reaches of the cosmos, medical science has no limits, man will live forever.
War, plague, famine are just in history books, man has never had it so good, thanks to Germanicus... :thumb001:

[Allenson]

I made it to the 17th or maybe even the 19th Century. I'll take it. ;)

[Phlegethon]

If I went two thousand years back in time I would block any so-called 'progress' and thus would still be living in the Garden of Eden.

[Germanicus]

If I went two thousand years back in time I would block any so-called 'progress' and thus would still be living in the Garden of Eden.

You mean you would be in a world like Afghanistan?

[Phlegethon]

If I had been around 2000 years ago Islam would never have come into existance. And Afghanistan would be the Switzerland of Asia. ;)

[Electronic God-Man]

5 wrong and 5 right. Advancing from year 0 to the 15th Century.

But really no one person would be able to do that no matter how much technical knowledge they had. :(

[Germanicus]

In my opinion, technology will leap ahead considerably in the next 100 years, Computer power will treble , quadruple, who knows, they will become self aware soon so scientists have predicted.
With this coming of a super computer technology will bring my grandchildren unimagined living standards, or take us back to the roundhouse?......:coffee:

[Puddle of Mudd]

"Starting from year 0, you might be able advance civilization to the 20th century. You are certainly a technologically useful person"

Hooray, I'm useful!

[Loddfafner]

3 wrong. "Quite good... might be able to advance civilization to the 17th or even the 19th century. You are technologically useful."

Don't worry. I will call it quits when I get to the 12th century.

[Graham]

5 correct, Mediocre

Better than I thought I would do.Am happy :P

[Barreldriver]

This result does not surprise me considering that I take natural interest in more "archaic" topics. I prefer small scale hoe farming (borderline horticulture) over large scale mechanized agriculture, I prefer more archaic weaponry (blades, arrows, spears, javelins, etc..) that are less difficult to manufacture in a quick pinch or in your basement, I prefer a more simple existence that does not rely on as much technology. The most sophisticated thing I have is my computer (and about all I can do with it is type and turn it on, hell if I knew all of ye' on a personal level I'd assume write letters on paper with ink rather than e-surf lol), the rest of my stuff is very basic.

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