{"id":8302,"date":"2005-12-20T11:20:11","date_gmt":"2005-12-20T18:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2005\/12\/20\/message-to-the-future.html"},"modified":"2005-12-20T11:20:11","modified_gmt":"2005-12-20T18:20:11","slug":"message_to_the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/12\/20\/message_to_the.html","title":{"rendered":"Message to the future"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s the high-tech equivalent a time capsule — sending your future self an e-mail<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The site [FutureMe.org<\/a>] 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.<\/p>\n

“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.”<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

“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.'”<\/p>\n

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 <\/em>naive.<\/p>\n

Now, if I could get <\/em>an e-mail from the me of 30 years from now … that <\/em>would be pretty keen …<\/p>\n

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