The study of time and time travel has intrigued scientists for many generations, I'm sure. In fact, in order to reseach on time travel doing their working hours, they would refer to their reseach as "close-timelike curves".
Also, if you think about it, our future is as good as planned since we know that no matter how much we speculate about time or time travel, everything is happening simultaneously in a different time dimension. This means that we have already made our decisions....sort of.
Another matter I find very interesting is the concept of creating a machine to foresee the future. There is great potential risk even by perfoming the action of operating it since using the machine will start changing your future.