In Bristol, a team of time travel engineers journeyed back to 2025 to repurpose the energy from a digital advertising screen and install a time machine. They said that Black Friday ads are a particularly rich source of energy for time travel, so it was the perfect time and location for their flat-pack, user-friendly time machine to be installed.
One of the time travellers explained: “There are a lot of worries in 2025 – and it can feel hard to find the best path forward without seeing the future you want. By installing this time machine, we’re inviting the people of Bristol to step into their best version of the future.”
Another commented: “It’s strange to be back in 2025 and remember that these sites used to be used for advertising. Or even that there was any commercial advertising at all. It’s simply not needed in the post-capitalist society we have in the not-too-distant future.”
Passers-by and bus passengers-to-be agreed that a time machine seemed much more useful than a screen showing Black Friday and perfume adverts. They were able to spin dials and shift a specifically designed Turbo mode option to select when and where they wanted to visit in the future, and share what they experienced there. Futures ranged from snow tomorrow, to a free Palestine by 2026, to rewilded landscapes and oceans teeming with life in 100 years.
