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« Springsteen: 'Born to Run' 30th Anniversary podcasts (mp3s) | Main | Offbeat Thanksgiving recipes » November 15, 2005Email time capsule lets you contact your future selfUpdated Wednesday, 12:46 p.m. In a short story titled, "The Other," an elderly Jorge Luis Borges writes of meeting his younger self on a bench by the Charles River. The 18-year-old is actually sitting on a bench in Geneva, and barely remembers an old man trying to talk to him. If you could talk to the person you'll be one, three, ten, twenty years from now, what would you say to your older self?
They've triple-covered their part of keeping the emails. But your email address is the weak link: Will your current provider still be around? (Will you?) Since they chose Yahoo as one of their backups, a Yahoo address might be a good bet. It would be a lot cooler to be able to email your younger self ("Don't go out with him! The Red Sox will win the World Series in your lifetime! Buy Google!") but they haven't worked out that one yet. Deadline is Nov. 30. Posted by Sheila Lennon |
my passport photo blogging since 2002 garden blogs archived headlines  Sheila Lennon is features & interactive producer of projo.com, the Web site of The Providence (R.I.) Journal Rhode Island |
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