New Video Project Allows You To Talk To Yourself 25 Years in the Future [VIDEO]
You can probably look back to a time in middle school or high school when you were assigned the task of writing a letter to yourself in regards to your goals and where you hope you will be upon reading it some years later. Now come 2010 with the new age of technology and further the new age of thought, and we get the revolutionized video time capsule “In 25 Years”, where elements such as seeing, hearing, and ultimately reliving your exact self 25 years prior no doubt succeeds the paper, envelope, and handwritten snail mail of before.
The “In 25 Years” time capsule is described as “a collaborative letter to the future, written and read on camera by those of us in the soon-to-be past. [The] videos will be collected and stored in a strategically hidden, hermetically sealed time capsule until 2035 when older versions of our current selves will dig them up and hold a screening party 25 years in the making.” Conceptualized by three friends, the idea is intriguing as the ability to put your current status of self on video to be viewed in 25 years causes you to think will I like what I was then? Am I the same? Or better yet, will I even be around to see it?
Some submitters, aka ‘time travelers,’ write a letter which they then read off into the camera, and others wing it and speak freely. Either way, the time travelers featured in the promo are of all kinds and each video is different from the other, ranging from the self-evaluation “if you are viewing this, that means you did not drink yourself to death” to current aspects of ones life like “this is Buckley your 4 month old puppy, probably not with you anymore” to even eerie thoughts of “I think the end of the world is coming soon.”
With the video clips from above, we’re left to thinking not only what we might say in a video to upload, but also what will the world even be in 2035? When contemplated, will we even be able to watch these video clips? Will the internet have sustained through the years? Or will there actually be an end of the world coming soon?
If you’re as intrigued as we are and would like to be a time traveler and see for yourself in 25 years, visit In25Years.com where you will be instructed and guided as to how to upload a video and enter the realm of the time capsule. If it may be you’re interested but camera shy, have no fear, as you can also submit the old school letter version, but keep in mind, the aspects which make “In 25 Years,” such as video and audio, will be left in the past-literally.
Follow the In 25 Years project on Twitter at @In25Years.
