Technology on Trial is about questioning our digital age and making sure we have all the facts in context while we do it. Death is not a cheery topic but as inevitable as... well you know the phrase, death and taxes.
This is the first visit to this trial. It is to make us think and initiate conversation. It is the fundemantals of social media. What will you leave behind? What does it mean for your business?
We are the first people in history to create vast online records of our lives. How much of it will endure when we are gone?
Future historians will want to study the birth of the web using our digital trails – but how will they make sense of it all?
How can we keep digital bequests safe without poking our noses where they're not wanted?
January's Digital Legacy 'local legal bod' - Jayne Smith
Jayne Smith is a property conveyancing, wills, probate and trusts specialist at Nottingham-based law firm Rothera Dowson Solicitors. Even before the digital angle asserted itself on to our inevitable demises probate, wills and trusts has been Jayne's career specialism. She has selected the 4 articles featured below to introduce us to the world of digital legacy.
Fraudsters are increasingly targeting the estates of the deceased for valuable internet-hosted assets such as online bank accounts, private client lawyers have warned...
Jacques Mechelany, formerly a high-flying French banker, has thought a lot about death and the human legacy. One reason is that he has travelled so manically in planes that he felt impelled to update his will regularly. But also, a few years ago he inherited some stunning photo albums. They contained photos of his ancestors dating back to 1870 – but Mechelany was frustrated by how hard it was to find any personal details about them.
We are creating digital legacies for ourselves every day - even, increasingly, every minute. More than a quarter of a million Facebook users will die this year alone. The information about ourselves that we record online is the sum of our relationships, interests and beliefs. It's who we are. Hans-Peter Brondmo, head of social software and services at Nokia in San Francisco, calls this collection of data our "digital soul".
Sharing our lives on social networks is now commonplace, but what happens when we are gone? Channel 4 News finds people are thinking more carefully about their digital legacy.
Your photos, status updates and tweets will fascinate future historians. Will these online remains last forever? In this special report, newscientist.com editor Sumit Paul-Choudhury – for whom these are not idle questions – reports on life, loss, memory and forgetting in the internet age.
There are currently few procedures or public awareness about what happens to online digital identities after death. This paper discusses what happens with personal electronic information after death and looks to what is argued to be the rapidly approaching digital Afterlife. This afterlife of new emergent behaviour offers a challenge of almost unimaginable scope to the creative vision of Artists, Philosophers, Technologists and Cultural thinkers.
How about a Tuttle Club in Nottingham? @pcmcreative was asked one day via Twitter by @jobshareguru. @lloyddavis, founder of Tuttle Club suggested @pcmcreative as a contact point to get something going. They met, They thought, They drank coffee... there are already many networking events on the city why create another? Well.. Tuttle is a morning event, its a meet up with media making and social web analysis at it's heart. From this precept Technology on Trial at Nottingham's Galleries of Justice was born.
How about a Tuttle Club in Nottingham? @pcmcreative was asked one day via Twitter by @jobshareguru. @lloyddavis, founder of Tuttle Club suggested @pcmcreative as a contact point to get something going. They met, They thought, They drank coffee... there are already many networking events on the city why create another? Well.. Tuttle is a morning event, its a meet up with media making and social web analysis at it's heart. From this precept Technology on Trial at Nottingham's Galleries of Justice was born.