Comments on: What website I can go to find a world future time capsule CNN.com used to have one in 2000-01? http://www.blogging4thefuturenow.com/what-website-i-can-go-to-find-a-world-future-time-capsule-cnncom-used-to-have-one-in-2000-01/76/ blogging about the world's future. Wed, 08 Sep 2010 08:29:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: napoleon9th http://www.blogging4thefuturenow.com/what-website-i-can-go-to-find-a-world-future-time-capsule-cnncom-used-to-have-one-in-2000-01/76/#comment-189 napoleon9th Tue, 14 Oct 2008 09:49:43 +0000 http://www.blogging4thefuturenow.com/what-website-i-can-go-to-find-a-world-future-time-capsule-cnncom-used-to-have-one-in-2000-01/76/#comment-189 I think you have got it wrong... Time capsules generally have a museum-like goal of preserving the culture of a particular time and place for the benefit of future historians (or at least future generations that might open them). You cannot use them now, you can only make them and leave them for future use (whatever that use will actually be...). Perhaps you are more familiar with the similar Message in a bottle concept? Anyway, sometimes the capsules already made are closed, and you can't look at its contents until it is officially opened - like the Yahoo! Time Capsule, which will remain locked away until Yahoo!'s 25th Birthday in 2020. I think you have got it wrong… Time capsules generally have a museum-like goal of preserving the culture of a particular time and place for the benefit of future historians (or at least future generations that might open them). You cannot use them now, you can only make them and leave them for future use (whatever that use will actually be…).

Perhaps you are more familiar with the similar Message in a bottle concept?

Anyway, sometimes the capsules already made are closed, and you can’t look at its contents until it is officially opened - like the Yahoo! Time Capsule, which will remain locked away until Yahoo!’s 25th Birthday in 2020.

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