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).

anti-instant-messaging : delaying ideas beyond the horizon of attention.. .

the geological mail.

• 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.

• 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

• 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.

• 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.

• Thurn and 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