In 6,000 years, our descendants will open the Crypt of Civilization at Oglethorpe University in Atlanta, Georgia, and discover how twentieth century people lived. A president of the University, Dr. Thornwell Jacobs, created a vault in the Atlanta institution because he wanted people out there in the future, around the year 8,000, to have a "complete picture of how human beings lived and thought during the days of our generation." The date for the opening of the Crypt was chosen, because it represented a time in the future roughly equal to the length of recorded history to the year 1940 when the vault was welded shut. What will those people out there in the future find when they open the vault? Among other things, they will find a model of the Eiffel Tower, 800 books on microfilm, 11 tape-r…