Friday, November 25, 2005

E-Mail Time Capsule?

http://forbes.codefix.net/capsule/

Nifty idea, though how the heck they'll find you in 20 years to ship you your message is anybody's guess. Not that I'm not sure what I'd write myself in an e-mail that will, hypothetically, reach me in anywhere from a year to two decades, anyway. "Jeff, make sure you pay the phone bill for 2006. Love, Jeff."

And let's take this a step further and presume that the next 20 years will see the same level of technological advancements as the preceeding 20 years has...by then, we may all be communicating instantaniously via microchip implants directly into our cerebral cortex, bringing the human race together in a way never before seen. Imagine the humiliation when some middle-aged professional, on the fast track to success and on his way up in the world, suddenly recieves a brain transfer of an e-mail he sent to himself way back in 2005, when he was but a teenager with no life and a computer, which simply reads, "AMERICAN IDOL RULZ FOREVER!!!!" If that one gets out over the brain-wave variation of the Information Superhighway, that poor schmo's life would go down the tubes faster than the hydrolic in "The Polar Express."

I just thought WAY too much about this subject. Think I need to go lie down.

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