100-year-old package to be opened Friday.
The ego of humanity never ceases to amaze.
People bury time capsules for whatever reason, but even the people most likely to be interested in viewing the contents, archaeologists, would be more interested in the consumable items in high popularity at the time, that people packing the capsule would consider mundane.
It's the same with mummification and cryogenics. Due to gigantic egos, people think they're worth saving, but think about it; has anyone tried cloning king Tut? Why would you?
If Einstein were alive today, how long do you think it'd take him to catch up to modern physics, especially when some of the assumptions and theories we rely on today were originally posed as jokes by physicists! He'd probably take one look at Schrodinger's Cat and kill himself.
If we could revive a frozen corpse of Thomas Jefferson or James Madison, how many people do you think would side with them and how many would call them "out of touch"? Even in the years after the constitution were ratified, the founders themselves immediately started arguing about the meaning. Nothing about that has changed in the past 230 years. A topic such as abortion would be alien to them. Modern birth mortality rates (both mother and child) are closer to zero than they've ever been; the idea of having a small family would have been contrary to their way of life.
Damascus steel was an amazing innovation at the time, but modern crucible forging and pattern welding accomplishes the same effect, with modern technology.
We're living in the future, and the future is interested almost exclusively in the future. It's egotistical for anyone to assume that the future would be interested in someone from the past.
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