Co-host Leigh M. Johnson is in the hot seat for this episode’s discussion of “digital afterlives.” If we consider the digital, i.e., information-based, self to be distinguishable from the living and breathing meatspace self, we should ask” how long can the Digital Me live on after the Meatspace Me dies? Technology already enables us to “re-animate” archives of digital information in many ways, and some futurists believe that we may someday be able to upload our consciounesses to the cloud. Who owns that information? What are they currently allowed (or not allowed) to do with it? What would happen if we insisted that all of our information be “deleted” after we (physically) die?
Whether or not you believe in a Heaven or Hell, all of us need to think more seriously about our digital afterlives. Charles, Rick, and Leigh work through some of that thinking– and much more– at the hotel bar in this episode.
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