Show pageOld revisionsBacklinksBack to top You've loaded an old revision of the document! If you save it, you will create a new version with this data. Media Files ==== the past and future of space time messaging==== Transmitting your transactions to tomorrow, today - at very reasonable rates! Your thoughts of today beamed into the forward lightcone of tomorrows by our semi-trans-temporal delivery service and network of semi-trans-temporal information servers. Future mail will be an open protocol for transmission into the unknown later times. The forward mechanism is a protocol for the (physical or virtual) time capsule, and the backward mechanism is to be determined (pending only the existance of a sentient and curious future and of an adequate science). ===deep time:==== anti-instant-messaging : delaying ideas beyond the horizon of attention.. . the geological mail. ===general operation:=== * one way time travel, at a range of resolutions. * an open, email-compatible server and network specification * an open protocol for sending telecommunication to the future. * an open protocol for sending telecommunication from the future. (pending implementation) * redundancies to insure confident cross-epochal communication. * planned expansion to general object courier service. * preservation of any particular future timeline cannot be guaranteed. ===email service:=== * Issues: * security / legal * distribution: functional preservation of the protocol must be convincing * social etc * Boring implementation details: * use a small server/pod/etc+ to talk to a 'proper' smtp server. * mail sent to the server/pod will contain instructions at the begining of the mail body. (something like the way a remailer works) + possible emails to try, in order + TIME/DATE to deliver + where to send failure messages + more?+ * each futuremail pod will store/retry/etc+ at the appropriate time ===physical service:=== * a long-lifed network of offices, archives, and couriers for the transmission of future objects * skills: archival, preservation, detective * funding: fee based on postal-relativistic proper time of object transmission. cost calculated per postal-spacetime meter. (1 second = vp meters. vp is the postal speed constant). * Unstable items not accepted. ===FAQ:=== * Q: I transmitted messages to simultaneous events in the future, but am informed that the packages will not have been received at the same time. What gives? * A: The provided service is compatible with the laws of special-relativity. Simultaneity of spacelike separated events cannot be guaranteed. ===related links:=== * [[Thurn snd Taxis]] * Web interfaces for caching near-future email transmission: * http://www.mailtothefuture.net * http://www.future-mail.net * Idea Futures: http://hanson.gmu.edu/ideafutures.html Please fill all the letters into the box to prove you're human. Please keep this field empty: SavePreviewCancel Edit summary Note: By editing this page you agree to license your content under the following license: CC Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International project_future_mail.1182170708.txt.gz Last modified: 2007-06-18 12:50(external edit)