SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 10: Yahoo set out on Monday to capture life on Earth in digital formats for a ‘time capsule’ to be buried in Silicon Valley as well as beamed from Mexico into the cosmos.
The Internet giant invited people worldwide to contribute pictures, videos, songs, ideas, drawings or anything else they could digitise for a ‘first-ever electronic anthropology project’ to document human life.
Submissions could be uploaded via the Internet to regionalised ‘Yahoo Time Capsule’ websites. Suggested topics included love, anger, fun, sorrow, faith, beauty, hope, and ‘you’.
Yahoo will celebrate the project with a grand three-day ceremony at The Pyramid of the Sun in Teotihuacan, about 40kms from Mexico City, beginning Oct 25. The event will be webcast, according to Yahoo.
Time capsule submissions deemed exceptional will be projected on the pyramid and all the digitised data will be beamed from the Mexican monument into outer space, according to Yahoo ‘editor and chief’ Srinija Srinivasan.—AFP
