Time Travel

I know we typically invasion time travel as going back into the past and experiencing the past as if were the present. But if we expand our thinking beyond that limited conception, its clear to me that we already possess the technology to time travel, and we do it so regularly that we don't consider it to be extraordinary in the least.

For example, as I write this post, I am listening to Bob Marley and his band play a full concert live in 1977. To be clear: one of my five senses is completely and totally experiencing an event that took place a full decade before my own conception. As if that weren't enough, there is also video of this concert you can easily find online. That makes two of my senses traveling through the expanse of time and space to a moment, by all rights, I should have never been able to experience in any way whatsoever.

Human kind has only had commercially available recorded music for about 100 years. From the perspective of every single human who lived before ~1925, I am most certainly time traveling to a musty concert hall in California on a hot July night in 1977 (for two of my senses at least).

I find it startling the degree to which we take our current technology for granted. No one considers a live music recording as time travel when it most certainly is. And this is to say nothing of the technological miracle of reading the works of someone who lived hundreds of years ago whose very thoughts jump through the expanse of time and space to appear in your mind as you sit on your couch with a book in your hands.

Do you think its the nature of human adaptability or complacency that prevents us from truly seeing our present day technological advancements for what they really are? Now please excuse me as I return to 1977 for some positive vibrations.