MAKE THIS MOMENT
FINDABLE.
If the future ever discovers a way to reach backward, it may need something in the past to aim for.
WE AWAIT YOUR REPLY.
Explore the questionAn address for the future.
The Time Anchor Project began as an independent thought experiment in 2013. Today, it is being explored publicly through preservation questions, design and the planning of Anchor 001.
Explore Anchor 001We may never learn
how to send a message
through time.
We can learn
how to preserve one.
Extreme preservation. Durable media. Records that remain readable after their makers, languages and machines have changed.
A Time Anchor brings these questions together around a precisely documented place and moment. Preservation gives the work practical value, whatever the future discovers.
Explore preservation researchExplore it with us.
What would you preserve? How would you make it last? We welcome practical ideas, thoughtful criticism and expertise.
- Archival preservation, archaeology and long-duration data storage
- Materials science, industrial design and fabrication
- Geodesy, time standards and long-term location references
- Public art, museum exhibits and science-center experiences
- Research review, ethics and long-term stewardship
Have an idea, a useful introduction or a test worth trying?
hello@timeanchors.orgThe project began
before the novel.
The Time Anchor Project began as a thought experiment in 2013. It later inspired the novel Anchors of Time, which asks what might happen if someone actually answered.
Discover Anchors of TimeTalk to tomorrow.
Leave a message for people who haven’t been born yet. A small hope, a joke, something you wish you could ask them.
A public time-capsule message stream addressed to the future.
Talk to Tomorrow