Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Dying soon?

Dying soon? Put your life story into your grave, so people can listen to it with their cellphones when they visit:
http://www.npr.org/2011/05/30/136676964/technology-brings-digital-memories-to-grave-sites

MIT actually predicted this 40 years ago with Project Oxygen: http://oxygen.lcs.mit.edu/Overview.html

We would someday use "handheld devices" to get "location-aware data" about our environment, like whether there's a meeting going on on the other side of a closed door. In their version though, the data about the dead person was stored in the grave itself, rather than just having that position, RFID tag, or QR code associated with a website about the corpse.

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