However, if all the extraterrestrial tourist had to go on was the 1991 time capsule recently dug up at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH), they’d be altogether less impressed – probably leaving earth in a hurry, and carrying straight on to Jupiter on their Milky Way grand tour.
The closest they got to choosing anything interesting was Kylie Minogue’s Rhythm of Love album, but as any fan knows, that’s hardly her best work.
The capsule’s contents also included a pocket television, a solar-powered calculator and a copy of The Times (Photo: Great Ormond Street Hospital/PA Wire)
Humans need distance to see something clearly – but that’s not to say that the close-up view offered by immediate experience is totally without merit. The objects in the GOSH capsule might be dull, but they were evidently representative of the texture of daily life for the kids who chose them.
What’s more, the story begs the question of how we would sum up our own time. The mid-20s feels defined by general shittiness, but who can say how future generations will look back on it? Impossible to know, but let’s give it a go – how to parcel up the UK in 2025 for my imaginary alien? Maybe a vape, and a St George’s flag? An iPhone, playing terrible music through tinny speakers? How do you put the internet in a capsule? Can we fit in a Lime bike? How about a food bank parcel?
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No matter how objective I was trying to be, my 2025 capsule would look very different to someone my parents’ age, living in Cornwall, say, rather than London, or working at a school instead of writing silly little articles, because our lives are impacted – defined – by different forces.
In the 1990s, as in the 1690s or 1290s, humans have comically limited perspectives on how their experiences fit into a wider narrative. As such, time capsules can never tell us as much about a time as they can the people who inhabited it: reliably inward-looking across centuries and continents, far less changeable than the world around them.
All this to say: you can pack as many Lost Marys and iPhones into a box as you like, but it’ll be decades before we have any insight into what’s really going on in 2025. Though god knows we could do with it a lot sooner.
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