The Metropolis

Bucket of iPhones Buried in Geffrye Museum

Chuck Ansbacher | Thursday 17 March, 2011 15:34

There’s a distinct chance that in 100 years, museums won’t exist. Hell, I don’t even expect the human race makes it into the 22nd century, let alone the thirteenth year of the 21st. But my crippling pessimism is apparently not universal, as some beaming youths at the Geffrey Museum have made the bold assertion that not only will museums and humans exist an entire century from now, but they will also be interested in things that their ancestors thought were important.

I personally doubt that the furry, seal-esque sub-species we’ll eventually evolve into once the fallout from Fukushima makes its way into our atmosphere and circulates around the globe, raining down upon us in a metastatic cloud of nuclear cancer, will care what humans were up to a few years ago. All the iPhones in this time capsule will either be used as scrap metal, or offered up as tribute to the great lord Bieber, and the seals will probably just deride us for killing off our entire species in two blinks of an eye, and not leaving them any sardines.

Geffrye Museum

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