Time Travel - Joe Martin

Where it started

The cartoons that started it.

**The Jetsons Meet the Flintstones** Two families, two eras, one machine bridging them. The first time I realized the past and the future could touch, and I was hooked.

**DuckTales: Duck to the Future** Scrooge bouncing through time to set things right. It planted the idea that the future is somewhere you can go, study, and change.

**Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles** The "what if they never existed" episode. It got me obsessed with how a single choice ripples out across an entire timeline.

It's basically meditating

How to time travel.

Here's how I do it. It's a lot like meditating, only instead of clearing your mind, you walk your future timelines. Pick one and play it out. Look at how the choices you make today land on the person you turn into. You won't know everything, nobody does. But taking the time to walk around in your future a bit really does help. So next time you get the chance, try a little time travel.

Where it all comes together

A TEDx talk about it.

I gave a TEDx talk on exactly this: time travel as a tool, using the lens of your past to imagine and build the best possible future for yourself. Same idea I've been chasing since the cartoons, just on a bigger stage.