photo caption: tienda, carr 167, Bayamon, PR
OPINION : THE NEW YORK TIMES
By EVGENY MOROZOV
PUBLISHED: MARCH 2, 2013
“WHEN your heart stops beating, you’ll keep tweeting” is the reassuring slogan greeting visitors at the Web site for LivesOn, a soon-to-launch service that promises to tweet on your behalf even after you die. By analyzing your earlier tweets, the service would learn “about your likes, tastes, syntax” and add a personal touch to all those automatically composed scribblings from the world beyond. LivesOn may yet prove to be a parody, or it may fizzle for any number of reasons, but as an idea it highlights the dominant ideology of Silicon Valley today: what could be disrupted should be disrupted — even death. Barriers and constraints — anything that imposes artificial limits on the human condition — are being destroyed with particular gusto.
To: Jan Galligan
From: LIVES ON ORG
Subject: _LIVESON
When your heart stops beating, you'll keep tweeting... Thanks for your interest in the after life. We will contact you soon. Sent from my iPod |
Jan Galligan
75Grand/Sur
Santa Olaya, PR
http://JANGuarte.posterous.com [art blog]
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http://about.me/JanGalligan [about me]