This document discusses time travel and alternative futures through a presentation by Trevor Haldenby, a time traveller. The presentation explores what if realities and futures could be improved by blurring lines between fiction and reality. It discusses concepts like the BRX virus, control of individuals from within through technologies, and habits of effective time travelers like being proactive, beginning with the end in mind, and putting first things first with the basic time travel toolkit. It encourages thinking about plural futures and understanding other perspectives before commencing probing into alternative scenarios. Time travel should be exciting, synergistic, and viewed as a long game powered by stories.

1. THE FOLLOWING FITC TALK HAS BEEN APPROVED
FOR YOU, THE PEOPLE
BY A ROGUISH TIME TRAVELLER NAMED TREVOR
CONTAINS INTENSE SCENES
OF EXPERIENTIAL FUTURES

2. “It is our future in
which we will find
our greatness.”
-Pierre Trudeau

3. Prime Minister Justin Bieber
MyWorld 5.0 Platform

9. Trevor Haldenby
Time Traveller
trevor@themission.biz
@trevver

10. An adventure laboratory that
researches alternative futures
and brings scenarios to life.

11. TMB’s Time Travel Clients

14. WHAT IF…
WE COULD IMPROVE OUR VISION
BY BLURRING LINES BETWEEN
REALITY AND FICTION
PRESENT AND FUTURE?

15. Public Domain: NHGRI: www.genome.gov/sequencingcosts

16. CONTROL.
TAKING CARE OF YOU
FROM THE INSIDE OUT.
LIFE
CHOICE
CHANCECHANCE
SHOULD BE ABOUT

17. Photos by Trevor Haldenby

18. Say hello to the BRX Virus.

19. by Ray Kurzweil, Attribution 1.0 Generic (CC BY 1.0)

21. Pale Blue Dot

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28. THE HABITS OF
HIGHLY
EFFECTIVE
TIME-TRAVELLERS
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Movingforward
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withtheAuthor
Powerful Lessons
in Experiential Futures
Trevor J.R. Haldenby
“I can’t believe we almost went back to kill Hitler,
holy shit what a fuck-up that would have been.”
—Every Fortune 500 CEO Ever
BESTSELLER ACROSS THREE CENTURIES

29. 2021
through
2038

30. BE PROACTIVE
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Travellinginto the
FuturestartsToday!
HABITS OF HIGHLY EFFECTIVE TIME TRAVEL

34. If you could Time Travel
to any year in the future…
when would you go?

36. SHOPPERSDRONE MART

39. "Any useful statement
about the future should
at first seem ridiculous."
Dator’s Law of the Future(s) :

40. BEGIN WITH THE
END IN MIND
2
Diveinto Dystopia
(butdon’tstaythere).
HABITS OF HIGHLY EFFECTIVE TIME TRAVEL

42. “History doesn’t repeat,
but it does rhyme.”
-Mark Twain

43. “History doesn’t always repeat itself.
Sometimes it just screams,
“Why don’t you listen to me?!”
and lets fly with a big stick.
-John Campbell Jr.

51. PUT FIRST
THINGS FIRST
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The“Basic”
TimeTravel Toolkit.
HABITS OF HIGHLY EFFECTIVE TIME TRAVEL

53. How does getting to
the future work?
Head straight on Rocket Science for about a year,
then take a left at Science Fiction Storytelling.
Signals
& Horizon Scan
Critical
Uncertainties
Scenarios
Implications
and Strategy
Trends

54. Trends
Drivers of Change

55. Social
Technological
Economic
Environmental
Political

56. UP
DOWN
LEFT RIGHT
Discipline Growth
Transform Collapse

57. Jessica’s five-year-old daughter Chan is in the other
room, screaming in broken Mandarin at the Paint-Like-Me
app on her tablet as it struggles to customize thousands
of open-content art history lessons into one just right
for her. NuLook picks up on the tantrum, briefly confused
by the presence of another language, and instantly
switches the interface on Jessica’s phone into a swirl of
Chinese characters. Jessica sighs. These new tools of
design may be inclusive, but they can be frustrating as
hell when your kid is a different kind of artistic genius
(in a different language) every three months. And this is
only the beginning. In an era of open- source education,
Chan’s curricula and diploma are as likely to be
influenced by her family members, future global
competitors, and Global Happiness Index score as by grades
on her final exams...
Written Scenarios
What might happen in the future?

58. Science Fiction Prototyping — Brian David Johnson

59. Courtesy of FoAM
https://lib.fo.am/future_fabulators/scenario_methods

61. Situation Lab

62. THINK
WIN-WIN
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PluralizetheFutures.
HABITS OF HIGHLY EFFECTIVE TIME TRAVEL

66. Future < Futures

67. UNDERSTAND
THEN BE UNDERSTOOD
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CommenceProbing.
HABITS OF HIGHLY EFFECTIVE TIME TRAVEL

69. Cassini Probe
Rest in Peace(s)

74. ByoLogyc StaffSTORY ParticipantsEXE Anarchists

76. SYNERGIZE
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TimeTravel
should be Exciting!
HABITS OF HIGHLY EFFECTIVE TIME TRAVEL

81. By Nathan Shedroff, CCA MBA Program
Licensed under Creative Commons

89. "This is not science fiction,
it's science eventuality."
- Steven Spielberg
Jurassic Park Production Notes

90. Agatha Haines's project, Circumventive Organs, is a collection of
imagined bioprinted organs, such as this fleshy defibrillator
Steve Gallagher
"Design fiction is the
deliberate use of diegetic
prototypes to suspend
disbelief about change.”
—Bruce Sterling

91. Natalie Jerimijenko — Feral Dogs

92. Rob Shirkey

93. SHARPEN
THE SAW
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TimeTravel
isa LongGame
HABITS OF HIGHLY EFFECTIVE TIME TRAVEL

95. Long Now Foundation's “Pace Layers”

96. THE TIME MACHINE

101. Time Travel is
powered by Stories.