If you could be someone else for a day, who would you be, and why?

Robert Oppenheimer for a day.

For sure. But for a cause completely opposite to what he lived and stood for.

I would have nothing to do with the Manhattan Project in 1942. Nor would there be a director appointed at Los Alamos Lab in New Mexico.

Why?

No nuclear weapons could have been invented. At all.

No one would have known there was a Trinity test on July 16, 1945.

And life in two Japanese cities will be like ‘business as usual’. The world would not have seen egotists showing off in a conflict.

Bombs would have spared both Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.

Many million people from the ill-fated cities would live to see a ChatGPT answering their questions about planets, the Goldilocks-zone and hope of life on distant planets.

And lastly, they would have laughed their hearts out listening to a Google-AI, Gemini calling current leaders of the world ‘incompetent’.