Time Travelers to Meet in Not Too Distant Future

Suppose it is the future – maybe a thousand years from now. There is no static cling, diapers change themselves, and everyone who is anyone summers on Mars.
Michael Dwyer for The New York Times

"The odds of a time traveler showing up are between one in a million and one in a trillion," says Amal Dorai, who conceived the convention.

David Nelson demonstrated the motorized couch in his M.I.T. dorm, which also features the "pizza button."

What’s more, it is possible to travel back in time, to any place, any era. Where would people go? Would they zoom to a 2005 Saturday night for chips and burgers in a college courtyard, eager to schmooze with computer science majors possessing way too many brain cells?

Why not, say some students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who have organized what they call the first convention for time travelers.

Actually, they contend that theirs is the only time traveler convention the world needs, because people from the future can travel to it anytime they want.

By PAM BELLUCK

Full Story: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/06/national/06time.html?