The Creepy New Digital Afterlife Industry

Image credit: Harry Campbell. Article by Wendy H. Wong. IEEE Spectrum – October 10, 2023. This article is adapted from the author’s new book, “We, the Data: Human Rights in the Digital Age” (MIT Press, 2023).

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 […]

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