Here’s Our Cutting-Edge, Crowdsourced Imaginary Time Capsule

umans have long had a desire to capture the now—to freeze the current moment to look back on after it has left us. We painted, wrote things down, developed photography and storage systems, and built vast libraries of books and images. In 1939, during the New York World’s Fair, Westinghouse introduced the (at least, the first one that went by that name): an 800-pound box full of. There’s even an official about how to make them properly, including a list of manufacturers who make sturdy, durable containers.