Yahoo moves time capsule to New Mexico
Yahoo will be projecting images for its time capsule project for three nights beginning Wednesday from the Indian pueblo Jemez in New Mexico. Yahoo had initially planned to show the projections on the Pyramid of the Sun in the Teotihuacan archaeological site in Mexico, but officials there denied the company permission, citing fears that it might damage the ruins.
The more than 15 hours of pictures, video, poems and stories chronicling "humanity across the globe" will be projected at night through Friday on the walls of the canyon at Jemez and beamed via digital laser light into space.
Yahoo also is hosting a virtual event in the "Second Life" 3D world. A permanent archive is at http://timecapsule.yahoo.com. People will be able to contribute to the time capsule until it is sealed on Nov. 8. Copies will be presented to the Smithsonian Folkways Recordings archives in Washington, D.C. and Yahoo will open the time capsule and show the contents on the company's 25th anniversary in the year 2020.
Elinor Mills covers Internet security and privacy. She joined CNET News in 2005 after working as a foreign correspondent for Reuters in Portugal and writing for The Industry Standard, the IDG News Service, and the Associated Press. E-mail Elinor.
