This was a short story I read in the 80's but I think it was written earlier than this. It was about a man who was hit by a bus and thrown through a shop window. When he became aware he was in the future. A future where interactive games had become so addictive that society was in collapse, people not working, litter everywhere and buildings decaying. Also, to keep prisoners compliant they were plugged into top of the range virtual worlds via direct neural interface. The main character is judged as insane as he tells them about his time travel and the story ends with him plugged into a virtual Wild West scenario as a cowboy.
In time Keeps on Slippin' , Farnsworth creates a basketball team which he matures by abusing Chronitons. This leads to time skipping forward by random, but ever increasing amounts. How much time was skipped in this way? Answer Unfortunately, I don't think a good estimate can be made for this, for two reasons: Many of the time skips move forward by an indeterminate amount of time. At one point, the Professor mentions localized regions of space skipping forward much more than others. We then see two young boys on the street below complaining about having to pay social security, only to suddenly become senior citizens and start complaining about wanting their money. Thus, each individual could have experienced a different amount of time skippage.
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