4 comments

  • pfdietz 3 minutes ago
    I remember a quote from Wired some years ago:

    "Real futurism means staring directly into your own grave and accepting the slow but thorough obliteration of everyone and everything you know and love."

    The sufficiently distant future is a place where you (and they) won't be. Time capsules can be seen as a cry into this abyss.

  • nubinetwork 58 minutes ago
    I often wonder what happened to the time capsule that we planted back in elementary school... I distinctly remember it being planted near the flag pole. Unfortunately that school closed a decade ago, and was torn up. I guess it could still be there, but its likely been crushed or pilfered.
    • voidfunc 6 minutes ago
      Similar. We did these in I think first grade and then one of the parents was supposed to hold onto them for however many years.

      We were supposed to get them back in like 20 years except you know the logistics of that are insane between people moving, teachers retiring, and a bazillion other things.

      The world before 2000 was quaint. Everyone thought youd stay pretty local and community would persist.

  • intrasight 50 minutes ago
    "Missing" is too general since it includes "stolen".

    Tell me about "forgotten" time capsules. About some interesting finds made hundreds or thousands of years in the future.

  • ungreased0675 57 minutes ago
    I don’t like the unnecessarily snarky tone of this article. It distracts from the main topic.
    • pluc 38 minutes ago
      Longreads: f*ck you, I'm reading