{"id":345819,"date":"2021-09-29T12:06:56","date_gmt":"2021-09-29T09:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/you-need-to-start-planning-for-immortality-in-the-metaverse\/"},"modified":"2021-09-29T12:06:56","modified_gmt":"2021-09-29T09:06:56","slug":"you-need-to-start-planning-for-immortality-in-the-metaverse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/you-need-to-start-planning-for-immortality-in-the-metaverse\/","title":{"rendered":"#You need to start planning for immortality in the metaverse"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a33e4a863206\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a33e4a863206\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/you-need-to-start-planning-for-immortality-in-the-metaverse\/#Its_not_a_distant_future_its_our_present_reality\" >It\u2019s not a distant future, it\u2019s our present reality<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/you-need-to-start-planning-for-immortality-in-the-metaverse\/#Replicas_or_continuations_of_consciousness\" >Replicas or continuations of consciousness?<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#You need to start planning for immortality in the metaverse<\/strong>&#8221;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-cdn.tnwcdn.com\/image?fit=796%2C417&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn0.tnwcdn.com%2Fwp-content%2Fblogs.dir%2F1%2Ffiles%2F2021%2F09%2Feternity-afterlife.jpg&amp;signature=6c57317479f3d405483ae4d0790b3534\" \/><\/p>\n<div>There is a new culture arising between (wo)man and machine. The digital afterlife \u2014 avatars we created throughout the years, photos and accounts we accumulated, contacts and messages we exchanged \u2014 is challenging our assumptions about life and death.<\/p>\n<p>The new frontiers we try to establish between the real and the virtual, between past memory, current experience, and futuristic vision are blurry. Who owns all the data we leave behind? How will we be remembered in this modern-day collective consciousness? Do we need a digital will? And how does this impact the grieving process of those we leave behind?<\/p>\n<p>We know that today\u2019s data is increasingly interwoven with individual life stories. The internet even jumps in to substitute spiritual remembrance practices where they\u2019ve lost meaning.<\/p>\n<p>And it\u2019s true: the internet, as the most modern version of a \u2018hereafter,\u2019 will outlast us all. The traces you leave there will outlast you and remain present and tangible for those mourning and remembering you.<\/p>\n<p>Your smartphone, often worn on the body like a piece of jewelry and filled to the brim with experiences, memories, thoughts, and feelings, will take a central place in their mourning process.<\/p>\n<p>So are parts of us becoming immortal thanks to digitization? Is survival possible in this materialized collective memory?<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Its_not_a_distant_future_its_our_present_reality\"><\/span>It\u2019s not a distant future, it\u2019s our present reality<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>A wide variety of new developments can be observed that make use of these hopes, which are essentially as old as humanity, and yet come in a new guise.<\/p>\n<p>What might have sounded like <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/sciencee\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"5\" title=\"Science\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">science<\/a> fiction material only a short while ago is already a reality today with Kanye West gifting Kim Kardashian a <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/entertainment-arts-54731382\">hologram of her late father for her 40th birthday<\/a> \u2014 something that everyone can achieve thanks to providers such as the Dutch company Here we Holo.<\/p>\n<p>When we spoke to its CEO, Desmond Frencken, explained the core of this idea: \u201cBeing able to give a speech at your own funeral has been on my bucket list. Now we made it possible. It\u2019s a very personal message and better than a film. You can stand there, the projection is so crisp and clear, as if it was you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There are also other forms of \u201cdigital resurrections,\u201d such as a much-discussed example of a South Korean company using artificial intelligence to allow a <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-southkorea-virtualreality-reunion-idUSKBN2081D6\">mother to meet her deceased daughter one last time in virtual reality<\/a>. That way she was available to say a proper goodbye, an opportunity she hadn\u2019t been granted in real life.<\/p>\n<p>So the real question isn\u2019t whether we\u2019ll live on in the digital realm after our deaths, but <em>how<\/em>\u2026<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Replicas_or_continuations_of_consciousness\"><\/span>Replicas or continuations of consciousness?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>It seems that we want to remember our dead exactly the way we experienced<br \/>them while they were alive \u2014 which includes the internet. But what do we want for our own afterlives?<\/p>\n<p>Do we limit ourselves by trying to freeze ourselves for digital eternity? But aren\u2019t we much more than avatars or bots? So will the real question be around what the limitations of AI in creating our digital souls are?<\/p>\n<p>As we experiment with increasingly sophisticated methods of digitally bringing the dead back to life, there are both risks and benefits, and the question remains how we reconcile our offline and online selves after we\u2019ve passed.<\/p>\n<p>Some of us will never be content with interacting with a memorial page, speaking into a void that never responds. Others will rage against the dying light and build magical and monstrous manifestations of the afterlife, refusing to let the dead stay dead. We believe that we will need to find a balance between digital recollection and emotional release.<\/p>\n<p>And we believe we should not let our future be dictated by <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/technology\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"4\" title=\"Technology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">technology<\/a> \u2014 instead, we should develop technology for the future we want to have. And for the way we want to be remembered.<\/p>\n<p><i>If you\u2019re curious to know more about the digital transformation of death and get some practical tips on your own digital legacy, check out our talk at TNW2021. We\u2019ll be joined by 150+ other great speakers who are experts on every facet of tech imaginable.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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