We currently experience low-fi time travel and we've done so
  from the beginning of history.

  He's waxing eloquently over the nature of storing experiences in
  greater and greater fidelity; not just fidelity to a digital
  snapshot but also the "feeling" of it. For example, a change in
  the filter settings on a picture changes the 'mood' and
  therefore a little more information "from the past" is passed
  into the future.

  Same holds for art. Same holds for music. It especially holds
  true for writing, movies, etc. Same holds for anything stored in
  a retrievable and recreateable fashion from the past to its
  future, which is the moment of retrieval.

  So what's critical here?

  Storage.