Will Jarvis – “Time Capsule Behavior”
May 16th, 02005 by Stewart Brand
Time capsule secrets
High school classes and world’s fairs do it. Universities and builders and companies and municipalities do it. They bury little hoards of things they think people in the future will treasure— the future being ten years or ten thousand or never (most time capsules are immediately forgotten). Something strange, deep, and rather endearing is going on.
Time capsules are about talking to the present, not the future.
That’s the main thing I learned from William Jarvis’s hilarious expose of time capsule reality last night…
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Posted on March 2nd, 2008 at 1:07 am
est il availible en Francais, my English not good
Posted on October 20th, 2008 at 8:48 am
Time Capsules are fun and can be a slice of the past – My suggestion would be to make sure they wait at least 2-3 HUNDRED years before opening. Life advancement that can fit in a time capsule is moving to slowly to be interesting after only 25 -30 years.
Posted on February 28th, 2009 at 4:45 pm
Well done, nice post, comprehensive and well written. Thanks :)
Posted on September 28th, 2009 at 10:17 pm
Seems like this is the only talk to not have been published as a podcast, but there also doesn’t seem to be a transcript or the FORA streaming video. Any chances of that changing?