I hope that I get old before I die
Jul. 2nd, 2004 02:24 pmI found this article pretty interesting. And disturbing.
An excerpt which does a nice job of summarizing the article:
Vast numbers of pages containing digital references to deceased people, created for that purpose or not, float in cyberspace waiting for someone to update or remove them. It isn't difficult to imagine a virtual world in which Web browsers have to sift through oceans of data left behind by the dead. In fact, it's already happening.
An excerpt which does a nice job of summarizing the article:
Vast numbers of pages containing digital references to deceased people, created for that purpose or not, float in cyberspace waiting for someone to update or remove them. It isn't difficult to imagine a virtual world in which Web browsers have to sift through oceans of data left behind by the dead. In fact, it's already happening.