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The human story behind a digital time capsule

The human story behind a digital time capsule

Update: 2025-12-02
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If you could send a message to yourself, 20 years into the future, what would you say? On today’s show, Scientific American’s editor-in-chief David Ewalt joins Kimberly to share how he built an e-mail time capsule two decades ago and how human relationships kept the project alive despite the challenges of a rapidly changing technology and media landscape.


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The human story behind a digital time capsule

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