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One usecase I find particularly interesting is predictions. People often predict the future like “in 2 years we will have AGI” etc. It would be fun to fact check these predictions on the exact date 2 years later. Pick top tech leaders or politicians and scrape all their predictions and make a leaderboard of who got it right or messed up. could be fun to try.
Will this application exist in say 10 years from now? 20? And even then will I be using the same email by then?
Whereas I have notes-to-future-me on my calendar that I put there 30 years ago.
I think I sent one of those "mails to the future" in the 90's, asking 2002 me how I am. I don't think it ever arrived, or the free email domain I was using ceased operating.
Sheesh, anyone old enough to remember the services offering a free email address with a choice of maybe 50 domains in a dropdown?
Mail.com is still around and offers a lot of domains, though I think the amount of domains has reduced over the years.
For the same reason, I have every email I've ever sent or received, going back to my 1988 FIDOnet account.
I highly recommend people try this exercise. I got an email this year which I sent myself five years ago. It was tiny, and still mind-blowing.
Right now though, I set the maximum date in the future as one year from now, so should be able to guarantee that at least.
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