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History professor Paul Hudson discusses The Crypt of Civilization, a time capsule at Oglethorpe University in Georgia, sealed in 1940 and slated to be opened in the year 8113 AD. Hudson comments on the particular material and ethical problems involved in the construction of time capsules and recounts his personal journey from discovering the Crypt as a student to becoming a founding member of the International Time Capsule Society, a group dedicated to the registry and study of all known examples of the form.
