Twenty years ago, over 140,000 Forbes readers participated in an unusual experiment designed to test the limits of long-distance communication: a letter from their own past. The experiment, called an ...

This article is part of a package in collaboration with Forbes on time capsules, preserving information and communicating with the future. Read more from the report. Stuff is old where I live, in ...

Watch as Forbes editors open our 20-year E-Mail Time Capsule. Explore what this digital experiment reveals about innovation, reflection, and the future of the American Dream ahead of the nation’s ...

Hundreds of miles from the U.N. conference on climate change that wrapped this weekend in Belém, Brazil, scientists are conducting a first-of-its-kind experiment that could help future policymakers ...

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Contents of the 1914 time capsule revealed at the New-York Historical Society (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) The two oldest known and unopened time capsules were unsealed last week, one ...