Plan for Time Travel Before It's Too Late!

We all know that time travel has not yet been achieved. We know this because if it had been achieved someone would have brought back a copy The Dark Knight Rises and plastered it all over the Internet. We would also be eating grapefruit year-round instead of just in the winter.

Most of us don't really think to often about what we will do when time travel is accomplished. I think this is a mistake. When the first time traveler succeeds to warp around the standard tick of a clock, it's going to happen fast. It might actually happen slow, depending on how it all actually works, but I think for us it will seem like it's happening fast. We need to be prepared. If we don't plan for time travel until it is an actuality, we may never have time to do it. So what are we going to do with the new discovery?

If I am part of this elite group who finally succeeds, the first thing I'll do is sell it. Imagine Amazon.com having a 'same second delivery' option. You browse for whatever you want. Proceed to checkout. Make the purchase. Your doorbell rings. Amazon processed your order 5 days ago and didn't even need to overnight ship it to get it to you on time.

I would market it to grocery stores so that none of their produce ever went bad. They could see what items didn't get purchased during the week, then bring them through the time continuum and they'd still be fresh! You could have freshly picked berries that have sat in the store for weeks!

Depending on how the time travel stuff actually works, I would also set up a booth where people could come and get a quick glimpse into their future. Anyone could do it, but it would be marketed toward people preparing for job interviews so that they could more accurately answer the question, "Where do you see yourself in 5 years?"

Let's just be prepared. I'll leave the actual inventing of some sort of time machine to other people, I'll just have a plan for the thing once it's built. Otherwise it'll end up crushed by a dinosaur or carried off by Morlocks. We don't need anything that drastic. So if any of your future selves has any other great ideas for using time travel in clever and inventive ways, come back to this time and voice your idea in a comment. If my future self is ever able to come back to what is now the present, I'll be sure to leave a message hidden in this post.