{"id":1536,"date":"2021-01-01T08:13:41","date_gmt":"2021-01-01T07:13:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogg.lnu.se\/unesco\/?p=1536"},"modified":"2020-12-31T21:14:33","modified_gmt":"2020-12-31T20:14:33","slug":"what-is-the-point-of-time-capsules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogg.lnu.se\/unesco\/?p=1536","title":{"rendered":"What is the point of time capsules?"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>Jason Feifer recorded an interesting podcast on &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jasonfeifer.com\/pessimists-archive\/episode\/2633ecc6\/how-to-communicate-with-the-future\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">How to Communicate With the Future<\/a>&#8221; (45 min). Feifer is sceptical about time capsules and other such endeavours to send messages to the future. Among others, the podcast contains an interview with Jon Lomberg, designer of the Voyager Golden Record launched in 1977.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p>Feifer argues that time capsules are not much good for what they purport to achieve and mostly a way of helping ourselves finding meaning and patterns in our own present. What we should do instead of constructing time capsules and other messages to the future is to build a better world today so that future generations do not need to receive any additional information because they already have what they need from us.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jason Feifer recorded an interesting podcast on &#8220;How to Communicate With the Future&#8221; (45 min). Feifer is sceptical about time capsules and other such endeavours to send messages to the future. 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