ocr: ito: They did the same thing in 1939, at the New York Expo. Such time capsules might be substitutes for common ownership, having the possibility of becoming myth. Although people create time capsules for ditterent reasons, that of the Osaka Expo was packaged as a slice of the 1970s. Ever since the New York Expo, the World Exposition itself began to have this character of packaging time. I think this is closely related to our cagerness today to file all intormation into databases, and also to our conception of museums. It is a manifestation of the 20th century's attitude towards time, this desi ...