Death and social media: what happens to your life online? – We Die in Public
Everyone needs to start thinking about this. I now the mortal coil and your finite existence is a topic some people avoid but things have forever changed.
I wonder what Ben Franklin’s FaceBook page would have looked like?
I am currently watching We Live in Public and it is making me think about how we will die in public as well. The implications of a digitization of a life into a series of bits that gets backed up in the cloud. Can “immortality” be purchased with enough cash to create that infinite back up plan? Does our social foot print influence the future AI and pattern behaviors of our digital selves?
As we speed to a life and death in public what does the test of time do to the nature of man? How do we as a culture deal with a life span where our first steps are being recored on the iPhone and end when the nanites can no longer receive a signal from our neural receptors?
At that point we all become digital natives.
Just another glimpse of tomorrow.
