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Which Three Would You Choose?

Photo Courtesy In the movie/book The Time Machine by HG Wells, the main character is called Time Traveller . Time Traveller lives in the Victorian age, is an inventor/scientist, and makes a machine that enables him to travel into the future. To pick a year to visit, Time Traveller uses his curiosity about how the earth will end and selects AD 802,701. Weird year choice, huh?  When he arrives, Time Traveller meets the few people still inhabiting the earth. There are only two groups: one who sits around enjoying all that is on the earth (the Eloi), the other lives underground and--to Time Traveller's surprise--treats the first group like lazy cattle (Morlocks). Time Traveller discovers there are no books, schools, or motivations to cause the Eloi to care about each other or anything else. His heart goes out to the people. Even in the short time he is there, a few of the Eloi learn from his example and show a desire to fight the Morlocks to save their friends. Upse...