Re: How to make money fast (in science fiction)

On Mar 26, 7:07 pm, darkm...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:

> The simplest and "scifiest" way - to become an inventor, creating
> wonderful stuff like fusion power, room temterature superconductors,
> artificial intelligence etc.. is plain out. The Visitor has enemies
> who have general idea where in the multiverse is is hiding, and our
> timeline (together with many "nearby" ones) is watched and any serious
> disturbance from "normal evolution" of comparable civilzations will be
> noticed. In other words, he can become a leading businessman or
> politician (in fact, to amass billion of dollars, he will have to),
> but he must not behave differently from his Earthly counterparts.
>

I'd probably have him head to China, and use the "inventor" archetype
such that he carefully stays one step behind the leading edge.  He
makes sure that Earth doesn't advance too fast, by never "inventing"
anything that hasn't been invented yet, but rather "reverse
engineering" it all for cheaper, easier production in some place that
is probably less concerned about do***entation that modern USA.

And, he would probably keep an eye on tech stocks.  He'd be better at
guessing which tech-startups are most likely to be on to something and
which are just peddling s**** oil.