THE CREEPY NEW DIGITAL AFTERLIFE INDUSTRY
THE CREEPY NEW DIGITAL AFTERLIFE INDUSTRY
admin 2023/10/11 12:10These companies could use your data to bring you back—without your consent.
IT’S SOMETIME IN the near future. Your beloved father, who suffered from Alzheimer’s for years, has died. Everyone in the family feels physically and emotionally exhausted from his long decline. Your brother raises the idea of remembering Dad at his best through a startup “digital immortality” program called 4evru. He promises to take care of the details and get the data for Dad ready.
After the initial suggestion, you forget about it until today, when 4evru emails to say that your father’s bot is available for use. After some trepidation, you click the link and create an account. You slide on the somewhat unwieldy VR headset and choose the augmented-reality mode. The familiar walls of your bedroom briefly flicker in front of you.
Conrtinue reading to learn more: https://spectrum.ieee.org/digital-afterlife...
IT’S SOMETIME IN the near future. Your beloved father, who suffered from Alzheimer’s for years, has died. Everyone in the family feels physically and emotionally exhausted from his long decline. Your brother raises the idea of remembering Dad at his best through a startup “digital immortality” program called 4evru. He promises to take care of the details and get the data for Dad ready.
After the initial suggestion, you forget about it until today, when 4evru emails to say that your father’s bot is available for use. After some trepidation, you click the link and create an account. You slide on the somewhat unwieldy VR headset and choose the augmented-reality mode. The familiar walls of your bedroom briefly flicker in front of you.
Conrtinue reading to learn more: https://spectrum.ieee.org/digital-afterlife...
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