Gone Fishing

Middle of the workday, forced to confront the millennium. To transform data—1s and 0s—into a DNA sequence—ATGC—and save as a dehydrated dust. Resting on a shelf for 500 years, 1,000 years. Fast-forward: who’s there? To place a capsule on the shelf is to say, Yes, I believe you will survive. It begs more questions than answers. When you cast a rod, you don’t question whether there will be fish.

No. 110