For a born-again Luddite, it's exhilarating to think that paper may well outlast the new technology. The Times Capsule panel decided against burying it. Instead, it will go on permanent display in the courtyard of the American Museum of Natural History, where, it is hoped, it will endure until the year 3000. Among its contents will be a copy of Sunday's New York Time Magazine. Looking through it, I wondered what people 1,000 years hence might make of it, and concluded that one of the few things that may still be relevant to life in the year 3000 is the nine-page supplement extolling the timeless delights of Scotch whiskey.
Humans have an abiding interest in fermented beverages.
Probably the same sorts of things that Lacey and Danziger write about life in A.D. 1000. What we ate and drank. How we loved, or didn't. What we used for money. How we coped with disease and infirmity.