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James Gleick: Time Travel

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The Evolution of Time Travel in Other Cultures

Time travel is a literal genre where you have an ability to willfully travel to a point in time in the past or the future. Time travel narrowly defined that really is a western idea and it's been slow to spread to other cultures. There are cultures that point in the opposite direction that say there's the future there's the past, so we're culturally bound by our own way of thinking about time.

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