[ WP ] Leonardo DA Vinci is teleported to the modern world . You show him the latest tech and culture . Surprisingly , he 's rather unimpressed .

The woods and mountains behind my house in South Anchorage stretched for miles only broken by hiking trails and the odd abandoned military structure. The slate grey structure had always been there as long as I remembered, it was different than other structures in the area, but not me or anyone else in the area ever gave any thought to it. It was an odd one no entrance or other remarkable features. We always shrugged it off, they did lots of interesting things during the Cold War in the deep Alaskan Mountains. 
 
 I got a job as a civilian contractor for the Air Force documenting and publishing Cold War era histories. Growing up around bunkers from the 60s and 70s made me pretty excited about that job, plus I would be able to return home. I was perfect for the job, my book on Renaissance Italy was a New York Times bestseller and the Government was paying me handsomely to take the boring history of the Cold War and turn it into a series of facts that the country would gravitate towards and fall I love with. 
 
 Imagine my surprise when there was zero evidence of that structure EVER being there. The Air Force was intrigued. We went there to check it out, I had not been in there in about 15 years, but it was still there, the marks of young lovers still painted and etched onto the structure. We studied it for weeks, apparently what I used to think was just concrete was actually something no one at the Air Force had ever encountered. X-Rays and other imaging systems told us nothing about what it did or what might be inside of it. So, we blew a hole in it. 
 
 After the smoke cleared all we heard was a garbled yelling. Suddenly concerned that there might actually be someone in there we ran towards towards to the whole, only to see an old man yelling at us in an older Italian dialect to stop. The Air Force team I was with was pretty confused, as none of them spoke Italian. Thanks to my time in Italy I was able to understand the old man, it seems I was more perfect for this job than I thought at first. 
 
 It was about two months later that the Air Force summoned me back, after they found the guy in that structure they shut the whole operation down pretty quickly to figure out what was going on. They told me said he was Leonardo Davinci... And they actually believed him. Apparently he was able to translate Davinci's journal, not an easy feat. He seems to have convincing evidence he was who he said he was. Ive always been a skeptic, but apparently the old man wanted to only talk to me as of a week ago, so it's back into the clandestine world of the Air Force once more. 
 
 `` I knew this was going to happen'' the old man said as soon as I saw him. `` I knew it would be you too, you are the perfect man to find me.'' Really? This is so cliche, only one man can help him. And it's me? Well, I'm on government contract, so it does n't really matter since they are paying me pretty damn well. He wanted me to tell a story from his perspective, a story that he said would be his greatest accomplishment, and would begin another Renaissance. Whatever the Air Force wants me to do I guess... 
 
 And so I wrote, I wrote incredible things. He was who he said he was and he had been to the future, the past, and everywhere in between. What I wrote changed the course of the world. Nothing I had ever written had a greater impact. Nothing anyone had ever written had a greater impact. In his words: 
 
 
 I knew this would happen, I only wish you guys were farther along. Your touch screens are close, but over all they are garbage. Your traffic clogs the arteries of this era, much of your time is wasted sitting in transport listening to the narcissistic upper class praise themselves, and you pay them for it. Then you sit, and intake at home, there is no creation. When I was taken the first time they told me that only the past could save your future. Your technology is nothing compared to what it will be if you turn yourselves around. Here is what you as humanity need to do...
