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      CommentAuthorDanieru
    • CommentTimeNov 7th 2006
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    A Huge Entity presentation on non-possible futures!

    The Oxford English Dictionary defines a time-capsule as "a container used to store for posterity a selection of [entities] thought to be representative of life at a particular time." With this is mind, we thought it might be interesting to assemble our own time-capsule and, this being the web-lead information age, bury that capsule online, in an enormous web-garden.

    What ideas will future generations glance back at and laugh in contemptuous hindsight? In 50 years time which contemporary cultural memes will be deader than the proverbial Dodo? Lying in the digital darkness of our internet time-capsule these questions, and more, will have to wait 50 years of technological shifts; of societal upheavals; of cultural fermentation before they can be answered.

    Let the concepts bury themselves as we set to work...

    Featuring short musings from the most original minds in the universe:

    Browse here for a better conception of non-possible futures...


    All concepts open for discussion...
    • CommentAuthorwhat?
    • CommentTimeNov 10th 2006
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    I must observe, the terrible things I see are the product of my imagination, like everything, jump now.
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