vendredi 30 décembre 2011

After your final status update

Nowadays, the social networks like Facebook, Twitter,... flood our everyday life.
Adam Ostrow asks some essential questions about what comes after life. What do the files, that is to say the messages, the photos, the videos,... which we put online become on those sites after our death ? Is that possible that those publications make the technology intelligible and carry on interacting with others while we disappear ?
Lastly, is a robot able to succeed us and interact on our social network only thanks to what we posted online?


According to the speaker, our avatar will be immortal thanks to the technology.
Indeed, it will be able to post publications itself and to interact with other online.

At the moment, technology doesn't permit to replace the human's mind. Nevertheless, applications already exist which suggest us the next Tweet we could write, going by our digital archives. Some sites propose to prepare a message which will be posted when you die, even if websites intended to pay tribute to deceaseds.
It's conceivable that the advanced technology will permit to spread the use of holograms. Thus our virtual person would always live and, why not, could appear like a hologram thanks to our publications.

However, it's essential to keep very careful and realistic, and not to be overtaken by the spectacular technology.



To me, the use of this "incredibly rich digital archive" mustn't exceed reality. The new technologies which want to show the hologram of the deceased are very dangerous. It's important not to forget the real world in which we live, and not to submit to the technology which remains a virtual one. Indeed, if not any science reaches to bring someone back to life, it's the same for the technology which isn't a supernatural strength !
Because of the social networks, the frontier between the virtual and the real world is very slim.
In my opinion, the digital archives online must only permit to nourrish our memories but not to replace the desceased we miss by a lifeless avatar because everybody has to kiss the person goodbye.

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