>How about creating a special email repository, so that you send a mail
>to a particular person in the future (such as yourself)? In the
>message would have to be the person's name, birth date and place;
>essentially enough info to find that person in 10 or 50 or 100 years.
>If the person were no longer alive, it would send it to his or her
>next living descendant, or sibling, etc.
That reminds me of the play by Samuel Beckett, Krapp's Last Tape. Every
year he made a tape on his birhtday, describing his life. And on his
last birthdya (he did not know it yet) he listened to some of the old
tapes, which were, in essence, letters to his future self.
I would like to write a message to my son, who is 5; that he could read,
say, in 25 years. If I did it on paper, it would lay arounfd the house,
and the temptation would be to revises it. But if it hung out with a
mailserver, it wouuld be frozen.
Of course, it would not be compatible with the new version of hardware
and software.
Kirk
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