The Way Forward Machine
The100YearWebsite is an interesting idea. Users can pay to have some data kept securely for 100 years and they can choose various options with regard to accessibility. I think that if you go in for this thing, you should get a watch or a ring or something engraved with http://www.the100yearwebsite.com/ just in case the metal canister that you receive in the present day is forgotten about 100 years from now. Your grandchild might wonder what the old fashioned URL is all about and then he or she will have a lecture at school about the Internet . The teaching unit might even give each student a copy of the Internet to take home and examine. Once you remove all the porn it fits easily on a 4 Googlebyte memory key. Don’t worry about your grandchild finding out about all the dysfunctional friends that you have on your MySpace…you’ll be DEAD.
The cool thing about the 100 Year Website is that they will update your data should technological changes warrant it. They will always make a duplicate copies and then transfer the images, text, audio and/or video from one copy of your data into the more up to date file type.
I guess that what this Virtual Time Capsule does best is allow you to chose what information you want to highlight as representative of your present day life and times. Remember the oft told fact about how our television broadcasts are traveling through space and that intelligent life will receive the oldest stuff first? Maybe you would like to encapsulate a video blog explaining the socioeconomic implications of Good Times. Maybe you just want to store family pictures and your favorite music. It is entirely up to you.
These Virtual Time Capsules make great gifts. You have the choice of conveying it electronically, or they can receive a physical package that looks cool and has all the login information inside.
Organizations like Amnesty International are using this service. I plan to check out the site 48 days from now because their capsule will be open to the public then. There are capsules belonging to groups, families and individuals that are viewable by the public right now.
