In 1983, when he was 28, Steve Jobs buried a 13-foot-long time capsule packed with personal items after a tech conference in Aspen Colorado. Its discovery and unearthing a few days ago was filmed for the National Geographic Channel‘s reality show ‘Digger’. Although it seems most of its eclectic mix of items haven’t yet been catalogued, it…
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(Video link here.) As an artist in residence at MIT, Trevor Paglen worked with materials scientists to develop an ultra-archival disc of images, capable of lasting in space for billions of years. He meant this disc to contain a “cultural mark”, that would portray our world long after it might have disappeared altogether. He interviewed scientists, artists,…
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