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Egbok
Member

07-13-2000

Saturday, June 19, 2004 - 5:30 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Hi! As some of you know, I will be moving into a brand new building on the campus of the hospital where I am currently employed.

All employees are invited to write a letter to the future, which will be enclosed into a Time Capsule within the new building, to be opened 150 years from now.

I'll be sharing a few facts about myself, my family, my job with the hospital and my hopes for the future.

Besides all the personal thoughts, I thought I'd ask you guys for other ideas I can mention in my letter.

I sure would appreciate hearing your ideas!



Twiggyish
Member

08-14-2000

Saturday, June 19, 2004 - 8:32 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
You could include pictures in the letter (insert them into the document). You could caption each picture with a small story. Your pages could look like a scrapbook.

Babyruth
Member

07-19-2001

Saturday, June 19, 2004 - 9:02 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
You'll want to include a TVCH butt shot or two...(posters' posteriors, for posterity).

Otherwise, you could mention recent advances in science and health, and what is still being hoped for. You could tell them about a typical day in your life at work and at home, from waking up to going to bed. You could write about what your job is like, what you eat, what you wear, what you drive, what you do for fun, where you have traveled. You could write about your concerns and hopes for the future, you could write about your own family's origins, ancestors. You could write about what your life was like when you were a child, how things have changed, and what you guess/predict might change in the future (inventions, discoveries, social changes).

Justavice
Member

07-12-2003

Saturday, June 19, 2004 - 12:50 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
You could also include basic everyday things like what a gallon of gas costs (hopefully, they will be using something else 150 years from now), how much a loaf of bread costs, milk, etc. What the best selling album and book are and new movie releases. You never know what is going to end up being a "classic".

Sanfranjoshfan
Member

09-17-2000

Saturday, June 19, 2004 - 2:17 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Make some predictions of world events.....be very vague about them, though. Either you will be proved wrong in a hundred years and your letter will simply be laughed off....OR you will be seen as correct and possibly become known as this century's Nostradamus! :-)

Egbok
Member

07-13-2000

Saturday, June 19, 2004 - 2:20 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Gosh, I'm liking what I've read so far...thanks everyone!

Sanfran...give me some vague ideas...c'mon!!


Sanfranjoshfan
Member

09-17-2000

Saturday, June 19, 2004 - 2:42 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
A world known political leader will be caught in a scandal...

There will be major political upheaval in the mideast...

There will be a flood, famine, war....take your pick.

See, it's easy! :-)

Rupertbear
Member

09-19-2003

Saturday, June 19, 2004 - 3:21 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Lmao....Joshie has a new by-line ;)

Egbok
Member

07-13-2000

Saturday, June 19, 2004 - 3:47 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
LOL Sanfran! I'll let all the other letter writers covering those current events...

I just thought of an additional question for you guys (thanks to SanFran!)...

What will your world look like 150 years from now?


Sanfranjoshfan
Member

09-17-2000

Saturday, June 19, 2004 - 3:56 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Well, hopefully, we will finally have those flying cars that they assured us in the 1960's would be commonplace by the turn of the century! :-)

Rupertbear
Member

09-19-2003

Saturday, June 19, 2004 - 4:21 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Lol...yeah but just remember back to the Jetsons....some of that stuff is around now, kiddo!

Sanfranjoshfan
Member

09-17-2000

Saturday, June 19, 2004 - 4:46 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Like what, Rupertbear? The "push-a-button-and-be-automatically-dressed-for-work machine" or having a Rosie the Robot maid? LOL

To answer your question, Egbok - I predict in 150 years they will find cures for many horrible diseases through stem cell research. Computers will be able to transfer binary code at the atomic level, thus making them tinier and more powerful than we could ever have imagined. We will still be fighting wars and people will still be starving to death. There will have been no contact from extraterrestrial intelligent life. California will not have dropped off into the ocean. Bigfoot will still be managing to avoid the paparazzi. A clean source of energy will be found, but it will be hard to come by because of politics.

Oh yeah....and Madonna will be reinventing herself. :-)

Rupertbear
Member

09-19-2003

Saturday, June 19, 2004 - 4:52 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Smarty pants! *spank*...there was other stuff...ya know there was! ;)

And ahhhh....she's "Esther" now btw, Josh...

...and you can call me something shorter than Rupertbear (tho' I am 5'4") cos it sounds so formal...

Sanfranjoshfan
Member

09-17-2000

Saturday, June 19, 2004 - 5:08 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Okay, Rupert, I'll admit that we do have "people movers" (at the airport now anyhow).....which are basically those moving sidewalks like in The Jetsons.....but we still don't have orbiting cafes or "space drive-ins" or mechanical helmet like devices that can give a woman a brand new hair-do in 10 seconds!!

But mark my words....in 150 years "Esther" will be "Madonna" again! I'll be the first one to admit I was wrong....when it doesn't happen in 2154....but not a minute before! (See how well long term "future predicting" works? I can't be proven wrong until it doesn't happen!)

:-)

Rupertbear
Member

09-19-2003

Saturday, June 19, 2004 - 5:13 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Rofl...hey, didn't they have microwave ovens & tv's that you could talk to people on?

Madonna...my oldest son likes her...yikes I can't abide the woman! ;)

Juju2bigdog
Member

10-27-2000

Saturday, June 19, 2004 - 5:40 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
SanFran, some of us call Rupertbear RB.