How to Be Human
David Ryan Polgar
All Tech Is Human founder | Responsible Tech advocate and leader | int'l speaker & commentator
“When your heart stops beating, you’ll keep tweeting.”
That’s the reassuring slogan from LivesOn, a young British company that promises to send out new bite-sized missives in your “voice” long after you’ve expired. By giving an entirely new meaning to an online presence, LivesOn gives you the chance to forever expand your personal brand.
Death, it seems, is no excuse to let your Klout score decrease.
We are saying goodbye to the days when you could die with a certain modicum of dignity, safely enclosed six feet under. Days when you were only disturbed on important anniversaries by friends and family with heavy hearts and flowers in hand. Moving forward, death may be a mere hiccup in your digital footprint—notated not as the end, but perhaps just a significant event on an indefinite timeline.
Today the dearly departed are leading increasingly robust lives online. While one’s physical body may leave the earth, that person has left behind a body of words, photos, and videos that remain online. Instead of the physical world where we clearly separate the living and dead, the online world is quite ambiguous as to who actually has a pulse. If everyone is tweeting, who’s heart is beating? Does it even matter?
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