Many of the thoughts good, bad and ugly were submitted through a service that translates phone messages and faxes into e-mail. They are sealed in a glass cylinder on display in the museum lobby, where they will sit as a reminder to visitors that there were those who came before. They won t have access to it until we open it in the year 2019, says museum spokeswoman Kris Covarrubias. Well, that s the thing about technology. It changes awfully fast.
Some contributors see even more dramatic changes ahead.
Life will be lived only over the Internet. Men and women will not meet face to face. They ll flirt, date and have sex online. San Jose eighth-grader Shelly Mussett was a bit more optimistic, though she wondered whether changes would be as dramatic as some futurists predict. There may be some new kitchen appliances like electric onion dicers.