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Here's a new one… this year's Census, to be carried out on April 3, will include a 'Time Capsule' box where people can fill out a message to be unsealed in 100 years time.

Inevitably, someone in reply mentioned the housing problem. pic.twitter.com/EPfyap0sQv
— Gavan Reilly (@gavreilly) February 22, 2022

Deeply intrigued by this possibility, as you wonder what messages would be comprehensible to people reading a hundred years from now. Imagine deems, as one of the few on here who will be crafting a message, is giving this some serious thought.

What message would you write for our ancestors to open in a century (assuming there’s still a recognisable world then)?

― mardheamac (gyac), Tuesday, 22 February 2022 17:27 (three years ago)

Classic writing ancestors when I meant descendants. 😑😑😑😑

― mardheamac (gyac), Tuesday, 22 February 2022 17:28 (three years ago)

i mean wont they have ilx

will individuals write for individuals?

im unclear here

― Ár an broc a mhic (darraghmac), Tuesday, 22 February 2022 17:31 (three years ago)

here now:

if you're reading this in 100 years:

twasnt half as bad as they say

― Ár an broc a mhic (darraghmac), Tuesday, 22 February 2022 17:34 (three years ago)

“Hope it’s more like Waterworld than Mad Max for you!”

― papal hotwife (milo z), Tuesday, 22 February 2022 17:35 (three years ago)

I’m guessing they would theoretically publish the messages? It’s not as though any of us would know who we’re writing to

― mardheamac (gyac), Tuesday, 22 February 2022 17:35 (three years ago)

'dear 135 year-old me: you rule'

― imago, Tuesday, 22 February 2022 18:22 (three years ago)

"We never planned it to happen this way."

― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Tuesday, 22 February 2022 20:52 (three years ago)

"OK boomer"

― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 22 February 2022 20:56 (three years ago)

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