Man meets a time traveler in Nevada desert. The time traveler came from the far future to find wondrous machines, empty cities, and humanity in decline. Builds a curious machine.
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2Hi, welcome to SciFi.SE! Are there any extra details you remember that you could edit in? Was this a movie or a TV series or a book? When did you read/watch this?– fezCommented Jul 22 at 9:09
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Twilight by John W. Campbell, Jr. (1934).
In the Nevada desert, a man picks up a hitchhiker dressed in odd silver clothing.
The hitchhiker says he is a time traveller from the future. He was returning from a visit to the ultra far future, and when trying to return to his home time overshot a bit.
The time traveler says in the ultra far future there are advanced machines, cities that are mostly empty, and a few decadent humans who are also hyper-intelligent. The machines are keeping everything running, but they have no initiative.
The time traveller makes a new machine which has curiosity. Hopefully this machine will evolve some initiative, and take over when man becomes extinct.
answered Jul 22 at 11:01
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4machine with curiosity achieves initiative, humankind becomes extinct.– civitasCommented Jul 22 at 20:49
The Time Machine - H.G. Wells
Also follows the same flow. A scientist builds a time machine into the future and finds Earth in a dilapidated state and the sun is dying while humans have regressed evolutionary-ily after conquering Science and Nature
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1Hi, welcome to SF&F. The Time Machine is told from the traveller's viewpoint; this story has the time traveller meet the protagonist, so it's substantially different.– DavidWCommented Jul 22 at 20:46
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3Also, the Nevada desert doesn't feature in Wells' novella, which is set entirely in England (or what's left of that land mass in the distant future). Commented Jul 22 at 20:56