How Forbes Sent E-mails to the Future—And What Happened 20 Years Later
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I sent hundreds of thousands of e-mails to the future. Here’s the story
Twenty years ago Forbes.com sent hundreds of thousands of messages to the future. Here’s what happened next
Scientific American (www.scientificamerican.com)
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From Scientific American via this RSS feed
I sent hundreds of thousands of e-mails to the future. Here’s the story
Twenty years ago Forbes.com sent hundreds of thousands of messages to the future. Here’s what happened next
Scientific American (www.scientificamerican.com)
This was a great read! For others, the less interesting thing was the contents of the emails, the more interesting thing was how to make sure they got sent:
So we decided to hedge our bets by storing the data at three very different institutions: first, at Forbes, the longtime lion of capitalism; second, at the Internet giant Yahoo, which had then become a $55-billion company after several years of fast growth; and finally, at Codefix Consulting, a one-man consultancy run by a friend of mine from college, Garrison Hoffman.