SciFi travel to future story
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1Korokinopio
I think this story came out in the last 10 years
I don't remember the cover cause I listened to it, and didn't pay much attention to the cover
The plot
A "garage scientist" builds a one way time travel device. When he's ready to turn it on, he discovers that his wife is cheating with his best friend, so he grabs her fanciest diamond earrings, and jumps in. He sets it for 20 years, but the machine screws up and sends him 2000 years into the future. When he gets out, he finds weird white genderless beings have replaced humans, and the surface of the planet has been overrun by plant life, while these beings live underground. He becomes close friends with one who tells him some history. At some point someone invents a universal fabricator that can make anything, and of course capitalism means big business are charging people an arm and a leg to use it, but because anything can be manufactured with this machine, there are no more jobs, so the economy starts to crash, so the inventor inputs the recipe for the fabricator into the fabricator, and sets the price to zero, so anyone can have their own fabricator in their own home. Economy collapses, and people who don't need to work start making art and doing science, and a utopia ensues.
Eventually our protagonist discovers that the aforementioned "friend" from before has found his notes and made his own time machine, and has come to the same time, and is "bringing capitalism to the savages of the future" including trying to teach them how to farm. A small scale war ensues, and the story ends with a happy ending.
Does anyone know what this was called? I really enjoyed it, but can't remember what it was.
I don't remember the cover cause I listened to it, and didn't pay much attention to the cover
The plot
A "garage scientist" builds a one way time travel device. When he's ready to turn it on, he discovers that his wife is cheating with his best friend, so he grabs her fanciest diamond earrings, and jumps in. He sets it for 20 years, but the machine screws up and sends him 2000 years into the future. When he gets out, he finds weird white genderless beings have replaced humans, and the surface of the planet has been overrun by plant life, while these beings live underground. He becomes close friends with one who tells him some history. At some point someone invents a universal fabricator that can make anything, and of course capitalism means big business are charging people an arm and a leg to use it, but because anything can be manufactured with this machine, there are no more jobs, so the economy starts to crash, so the inventor inputs the recipe for the fabricator into the fabricator, and sets the price to zero, so anyone can have their own fabricator in their own home. Economy collapses, and people who don't need to work start making art and doing science, and a utopia ensues.
Eventually our protagonist discovers that the aforementioned "friend" from before has found his notes and made his own time machine, and has come to the same time, and is "bringing capitalism to the savages of the future" including trying to teach them how to farm. A small scale war ensues, and the story ends with a happy ending.
Does anyone know what this was called? I really enjoyed it, but can't remember what it was.
3aspirit
It's been a long time since I slogged through H. G. Wells' The Time Machine, but in that story, I remember whitened, androgynous humans (living in the air) who show off their society to the home inventor. The story you describe here looks as if it could have been publicly acknowledged to have been inspired by Wells' book. If anyone with more familiarity with time travel stories pokes at the links to check....
6aceofnohearts
Do you remember where you listened to it? If you know the platform that might narrow it down
