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The Creepy New Digital Afterlife Industry
IEEE Spectrum spectrum.ieee.org
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 called 4evru. He promises to take care of the details and get the data for Dad ready.
After the initial suggestion, you forget about it until today, when 4evru emails to say that …
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