Time Capsules

Time capsules have always been a thing. Ancient Chinese emperors built armies to escort them to the afterlife. In 1795, a bunch of Freemasons including former American revolutionaries Samuel Adams and Paul Revere put a brass box inside the cornerstone of the new Massachusetts State House. With the arrival of space exploration, people began to wonder about how humanity should present itself to other intelligent life forms. And after the invention of atomic weapons and the growing consciousness of the environmental crisis, we began to wonder whether we'd be around to witness the future at all.