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…
Read the rest of Stewart Brand’s Summary
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