This document discusses using digital technologies and information as the content of a time capsule. It argues that while traditional objects show a country's legacy, digital files can also preserve a culture's heritage in music, art, and documents. The document outlines some now-obsolete technologies like floppy disks and cassette tapes and explains how digital information stored remotely in a cloud could provide a secure way to share a country's legacy far into the future without risk of physical degradation.

1. DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES AS A
CONTENT OF A TIME-CAPSULE
BY RYOJI YAMAMOTO
ANSWER TO QUESTION K
IF ALL OF THE WORLD´S CULTURAL HERITAGE (SPORTS, MUSIC, FASHION,
ARCHITECTURE, LITERATURE, PAINTING, ETC..) WAS CONTAINED IN A TIME
CAPSULE, WHAT WOULD YOU INCLUDE TO DEMONSTRATE THE LEGACY OF YOUR
COUNTRY?

2. WHAT IS A TIME
CAPSULE?
• A container that contains objects
• Usually buried in the underground.
• These objects are special memorials
to the time-capsule designer.
• For example, picture album, diary,
trophy, etc.
• Question:
Can any other object be put in a time-
capsule?

3. EXAMPLES OF
JAPANESE LEGACY
• Kimono, Pottery, Kabuki, Ukiyoe
(Japanese traditional paintings) etc…
Others can be legacy?.. Maybe
Yes…

4. MODERN TECHNOLOGIES AS A CONTENT
• Reasons why technological
equipment can be legacy:
• Simply outdated (out of production or
no in use)
• This means new advanced technologies
soon emerges.

5. EXAMPLES OF TECHNOLOGICAL EQUIPMENT
• Cassette tape, LP records
These technologies are rarely
available today.
• Floppy disks.
It was main storage twenty years
ago but is scarcely used today.
(Floppy drive is unavailable to the
most recent operating systems.)

6. ADVANTAGE OF TECHNOLOGY AS A
CONTENT
• Music, performance, sports scene, can be recorded and stored
in digital media.
• Many documents are now digitally recorded. For example,
drawings at museums are available in digital records.

7. PROBLEMS?
• Vital Question:
• Can these digital media be used in the future?
For example, if recording standard is changed, past recording
standard cannot be used to play the contents.
LP records are good examples format.
CDs was once popular for music media. But the emergence of MP3 changed
the situation.

8. HMM… TECHNOLOGY CAN BE A CONTENT
OF A TIME CAPSULE?
• Yes, it can be. There are two kind of contents
• First kind: things that cannot be converted digitally.
• Second kind: Things that can be converted into digital information.

9. INFORMATION AS A TECHNOLOGY
• Once upon a time, blueprints are printed on papers. It is
digitally recorded today.
• Again, many things are now recorded as forms of digital media.
• Think about iTune. iTune Store sells music, movies, and books
without physical media.

10. INFORMATION AS A CONTENT
• Information (recorded digital data) may not buried under the
ground.
• Stored on a cloud-based platform.
• Certain security system serves as a key-timer, which serves as
a time-supsule function.

11. ADVANTAGES
• Large amount of information can be stored. This means,
Music, screenplay, and other media can be packed into a
memory space.
• No worry of corruption.
Burying an object in the ground often results in damages.
Information can be stored on the cloud data center. There
is no worry of corruption.

12. BUSINESS
OPPORTUNITIES?
• This can be a possible business
service, which provides information
storage and special maintenance.

13. CONCLUSION
• Technological equipment can be good candidates for the
content of a time-capsule.
• It also contains information such as music, screen play, etc.
• Information can be also legacy and information technologies
can support storing data.

14. QUESTIONS?

15. THANK YOU!