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Digital Graveyards
The American undertaker had done something similar: by making themselves “medical” they became legitimate.
Caitlin Doughty • Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory
A deceased person’s profile therefore offers visitors a venue for “continued conversation” with the deceased as they “integrat[e] their mourning practices directly into their ongoing social relationships.”
A. Lewis • Digital Death: Mortality and Beyond in the Online Age: Mortality and Beyond in the Online Age
To some, chatbots of the dead are useful tools that can help us grieve, remember, and reflect on those we’ve lost. To others, they are dehumanising technologies that conjure a dystopian world. They raise ethical questions about consent, ownership, memory and historical accuracy: who should be allowed to create, control or profit from these represen... See more
Amy Kurzweil • Are chatbots of the dead a brilliant idea or a terrible one? | Aeon Essays
when a website, especially one that invites mass participation, goes offline or executes a huge dump of its data and resources, it’s as if a smallish Library of Alexandria has been burned to the ground. Except unlike the burning of such a library, when a website folds, the ensuing commentary from tech blogs asks only why the company folded, or why ... See more
Kate Wagner • 404 Page Not Found | Kate Wagner
It’s a cruel irony that the platforms on which we encounter and speak about these issues are simultaneously profiting from a collapse of context that keeps us from being able to think straight.