Quote Originally Posted by cstone View Post
Why backward in time? Go to the future and study before returning to the present.

In the past, your future knowledge would get you some good medication, institutionalization, and possibly electric-shock therapy.

In the future, you will be considered backward and harmless due to your ignorance.

Back in the present, your new awareness of the future, used in a quiet and judicious manner will provide you with affluence and influence.

IMO, time travel is as silly as what-if history. I've read one (only one) book by Harry Turtledove. I prefer more orthodox fiction.