
This is you on social media
There’s been lots of talk recently about the prospect of using a person’s online social history to “recreate” a version of them after death, a la
Zoe Graystone. While the concept of uploading a person (their memories, personality traits, etc) to a computer is
a promising, yet tentative, possibility, the whole idea of trying to recreate someone from their online profiles and blog scares the shit out of me; what kind of monstrous chimera will be created?
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