A PA time capsule: a historical window for the future.

摘要

As the physician assistant profession looks to the future, an opportunity exists to forward a gift of the present in a time capsule. Examples of these caches of goods and information intended for communication to another era reach back to Mesopotamian civilizations and Egyptian tombs. More recent entombments of information include several World's Fairs sites and two Voyager planetary probes. For centuries, families and organizations have periodically created time capsules for posterity. The International Time Capsule Society maintains a global database of all existing capsules. Archiving a social group's history at pivotal times in development is a mark of maturity that shows leadership and progress with one eye on the present and the other looking to the future.