Back to the future
December 19th, 2005
Anyone who has seen the ‘Back to the Future’ movies, might feel that getting a note from the past is a very cool thing. At least I think so. Futureme.org allows you to do just that.
The site is one of a handful that let people send e-mails to themselves and others years in the future. They are technology’s answer to time capsules, trading on people’s sense of curiosity, accountability and nostalgia. Futureme.org allows people to send messages 30 years from now but most choose the message to be sent within 3 years.
According to the founders, a large number of the messages sent do one of two basic things: tell the future person what the past person was doing at the time and ask the future person if he or she met the aspirations of the past person.
Visit Futureme.Org and send yourself an email.
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Very interesting idea… but i prefer the current method… throwing sometihng in the dirt… maybe some future civilization will find it after we have left this dustball
nice snowflakes honey, very festive
I love the idea of sending yourself an email into the future… it’s kinda cool. lol something to remind your kids not to put you into a home when you get wrinkles!
Never knew hamsters only blink one eye at a time. Pretty cool. I, on the other hand, never blink because I’m not alive any more.
- Horace Finkle, teenage ghost
http://www.horacefinkle.blogspot.com
My present self would probably want to tell my future self about the NYC Transit strike. Or my future self will always know because of the injury to my heel from yesterrday’s 5 mile walk to and 5 mile walk from work. I worked it out wiht my boss to work from home. I’ll tell my future self that too.
That’s a really neat idea for a website. I’ll check it out.
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