Wildly popular global TV stations are desperate for new material for their viewers, so the
discovery of time travel in 2001 will be a fortuitous boon if it can live up to its hype.
These safaris into the past cost approximately a million dollars a minute. After a few
brief journeys to verify the Crucifixion, the signing of Magna Carta and Columbus’s
discovery of the Americas, the government-financed Einstein Memorial Time Centre at
Princeton was forced to suspend operations.
Plainly, only one other group could finance
further explorations into the past—the world’s television corporations.