As I am nearing completion of my first home-grown wearable design, more and more people have asked me about it. During a conversation today, I ran across a topic that I hadn't thought about before, and seems especially relevant to the group as a whole. Due to the increased stability of memory that a wearable system bestows upon the wearer, the situation becomes possible for a person's memories to exist after their death, and in a format dissectable by other people. Emails, important news articles, papers, thoughts, etc. are all perserved even after death. And unlike a desktop, due to the systems integral nature, most of these things will be MUCH more personal in nature, much more private. My conversation partner vehemenantly expressed his wish that the system would short itself out, or otherwise permanently destroy those memories upon his death, so that no one could "rob his grave." Yet, I myself see this as a plausible, minor form of immortality. What do you think? How will this affect society? --friar -- Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" toWear-Hard Mailing List Archive (searchable): http://wearables.blu.org
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