Our eternal digital afterlife — FrontTrends 2016
“The first step to eternal life, is you have to die” — Chuck Palahniuk. Regardless of whether you’re on a quest for immortality, physical and digital death are complex affairs and require preparation. What happens to our digital selves when we die? What is a digital will and can we even decide what the fate of our online persona should be? Who should inherit our Google accounts? Should our Facebook pages be memorialized, and who should have access to our online banking credentials? What about those who, like me, wish to completely “go away” when they die and for their online presence to end when our lives do? What are the options? How do we build systems that give users a choice in the matter and that address the many ethical aspects surrounding closure and the end of “lives” that span multiple channels. This talk is an invitation to reflect on the concepts of death in the digital age, privacy and a different concept of “property”. It is also, perhaps more importantly, a call to think about the products and services that we design in a different way, a way that allows people to have a say in a digital afterlife of their choosing.
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- 1. OUR ETERNAL DIGITAL AFTERLIFE ALBERTA SORANZO CC image: lickr.com/photos/dixielaw/3835745318
- 2. @albertatrebla | #FrontTrends THE FIRST STEP TO ETERNAL LIFE, IS YOU HAVE TO DIE. – Chuck Palahniuk
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- 8. @albertatrebla | #FrontTrends Son, If you’re reading this, I’m dead. I’m sorry. I knew I was going to die. I didn’t want to tell you what was going to happen, I didn’t want to see you crying. Well, it looks like I’ve made it. I think that a man who’s about to die has the right to act a little bit selfish. Well, as you can see, I still have a lot to teach you. After all, you don’t know crap about anything. So I wrote these letters for you. You must not open them before the right moment, OK? This is our deal. I love you. Take care of your mom. You’re the man of the house now. Love, dad. PS: I didn’t write letters to your mom. She’s got my car.
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