This is Your Life on Tech

Digital Remains, Grief, AI, and What it is to be Human


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When we combine the existence of ‘digital remains’ with current and emerging technologies, we arrive at some pretty weighty and interesting questions about what it is to be human, and what it is to really relate. In getting to grips with these topics, I can’t think of a much better conversation partner than Mórna O’Connor.

Dr Mórna O’Connor is currently involved in a four-country research consortium about digital death: Digital Death: Transforming Rituals, History and Afterlife, or DiDe for short. This recent blogpost gives a sense of her thinking/work at the moment.



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This is Your Life on TechBy Elaine Kasket