Larry Niven
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I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works.
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I'd visit the near future, close enough that someone might want to talk to Larry Niven and can figure out the language distant enough to get me decent medical techniques and a ticket to the Moon.
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In hindsight it may even seem inevitable that a socialist society will starve when it runs out of capitalists.
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Building one space station for everyone was and is insane: we should have built a dozen.