What would be in your time capsule?

Question

In mine lays an Ipod, People magazine, some of my best works (short stories and poems) and all seven Harry Potter books.

Answer 1

I would out all my bills in there and when they asked me to pay I would say you will have to wait 50 years, sorry.

Answer 2

Good question!

Our time is rich in inventive minds, the inventions of which could facilitate our lives considerably. We are crossing the seas by power and utilize power also in order to relieve humanity from all tiring muscular work. We have learned to fly and we are able to send messages and news without any difficulty over the entire world through electric waves especially with the presence of internet, celluar phones and the like.

However, the production and distribution of commodities is entirely unorganized so that everybody must live in fear of being eliminated from the economic cycle, in this way suffering for the want of everything. Moreover, people living in different countries kill each other at irregular intervas so that also for this reason anyone who thinks about the future must live in terror and fear.

This is due to the fact that the intelligence and character of the masses are incomparably lower than the intelligence of the few who produce something valuable for the community.

I trust that posterity will read these statements with a feeling of proud and justified superiority.

Answer 3

I would put into my time capsule a lot of laminated pages of all sorts of newspapers and science magazines from over the years. Why? So the person who might find it in the future will know what sort of problems we faced, what sort of discoveries we have made, what our technological status was, how current geopolitical issues are handled et cetera. That way, the finder will be able to compare his or her society with the society of the past. Or, if I find it, it might help me remember.

EDIT: Yeah, reading some of the other answers gives me the impression that laminating stuff is silly. Scan the pages and then fill the capsule with several terabytes of information.

Answer 4

The waffling, overly sentimental but meaningful diary I've kept for the last 12 years since I was 18, photos, my first mobile phone that I bought when I was 16 (if it would fit!) and a book I received last Christmas called 'Bush-isms' - very hilarious, stupid comments and foe pa's from the bizarre president; future generations may get a damn good laugh but also gain a bit of incite into why their present is in such a mess!
I'd also put my DVD set set of Planet Earth in there; unbelievable footage of the most gorgeous, uninterrupted, unspoilt, unpopulated areas around the world, immortalised for future generations!

Answer 5

Well currently at this time i would stick a laptop FILLED with loads of infomation/games ect... and a charger + solor charger
An IPod, IPhone, Propper CamCorder a few magazines, some cd'd and a swiss army knife, oh two more things a condom and a razer

Answer 6

What do you do if you would like to capture the scent of flowers, the essence of all the things of your world, or the zest of a message? In case of flowers, you would surely extract their scent into perfumes, in case of a message you would try to seek what in there could be universal and all truth, and in the case of the rest of the things of the world, you might not take things by themselves, as that would be just about everything, you would take instead just affects of the things, you would take their essence, the impressions that had on you. This then might be in forms of stories, symbols, anecdotes, and examples in discussion relating you to the things of your world, and thus to form a single most sensible record of you being in your world at one certain instance in time.

It would be folly, in my view, to try to transport things, items, articles and even effects most personal to you in value, as they would be out of time even if it were you who would find the capsule - things like these would not make any proper sense even for the ones who picked them for their times capsule. As when time moves on things of the past reduce to become fossils, signifying nothing but conveying an archaic sense of their past validity in a world now long since disappeared.

Newspapers will not make full sense of their being published as such for the people of the future who might not be interested merely in facts but also in the sentiments accompanying facts of life, not interested collecting old newspapers, or magazines, but more in understanding what the age of the time capsule belonged to was like to live in. The contents of the time capsule, therefore, better be not dated, outdated, obsolete or archaic in any sense. They should be as good as for anytime in their past - universal, timeless, ever fresh, ripe for all ages, extracted for their best for all times and seasons of the world.

I be honest with you, I would put all my Yahoos Answers into my time capsule, and just about that; my answers composed in response to great many great people, like myself, in my living world, composed with all the good anticipations and the brightest of all hopes, the essence of the world through my eyes. I am certain they would do great amount of good to whoever would chance upon them anytime in the future, anywhere, and under any circumstance ... and in the meantime, I maintain my hopes for the best.

Answer 7

pictures of my friends, family, and city, newspaper headings, and fashion magazines.

Answer 8

Enough food and a camcorder.
Nothing else !

Answer 9

pictures. lots of them.