Here is the thing (it quite well sums up & answers the debate about how all of this worked so far)
From Kolin Pope, in the Questions section’s of Future Shock

“I’d get a restraining order if something like this happened to me. Why did you go along with it?

The first time Zane spoke to me at my door, telling me he was from the future, I knew that I had to play along. The guys orchestrating this, they somehow knew that I’d have the sense of humor to not see the entire scenario as a threat, and even play along and take part in it. The way I think of it is, how often do you get a chance to save the future? I basically had to.”

> If you engage people who are ready to be engaged, your stuff has infinitely more chance to work! (Give a microphone in a wedding party to someone who don’t like to sing and you will see if this person will play your game…)