Creativity and innovation in time-travel streaming series

Abstract

The article discusses, through the analysis of three time-travel streaming series, the importance of a “right” time for innovations. In ideational phase almost everything can be imagined, but the development and implementation of any innovation will be confronted with societal, economic and technological limitations of a certain historical time. The streaming series addresses innovations which were made possible in the future, as in “Outlander”, or establish a dialogue between past and future, as in “Live up to your name”. The main contribution of the article is to alert judges and evaluators about innovations ahead of its time, and to the permanent actualization of possibles, as a cognitive condition, that is, flexibility of thought.