It’s the high-tech equivalent a time capsule — sending your future self an e-mail:
The site [FutureMe.org] lets people send messages 30 years from now, though Sly’s numbers show most users schedule their e-mails to be sent within three years.
“We want people to think about their future and what their goals and dreams and hopes and fears are,” he said. “We’re trying to facilitate some serious existential pondering.”
He said 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 had met the aspirations of the past person.
“The tone of the past person is not always friendly,” said Sly, now a Yale University graduate student. “It’s often like ‘Get off your lazy butt.'”
To be honest, there’s not much I want to say to my future self. What do I have to teach him? Do I need to remind him of something? (Heck, isn’t that why I have a blog?) At best, I will sound charmingly naive. At worst, I’ll be depressingly naive.
Now, if I could get an e-mail from the me of 30 years from now … that would be pretty keen …
(via GeekPress)
To hell with sending a message to my future self; I’d like to send messages to my PAST self for lots of reasons.
I suppose if I want to see what a dipstick I was, I could always go back and read the archives of my blog.
Heh. Yeah. The flip side to getting a message *from* the future would be sending one *to* the past. Though I’d be apprehensive about screwing something up …