"But at some point in the (probably very distant) future, the number of dead people online will suddenly outnumber the living ones. Virtual corpses will start to become a real problem, just as physical corpses fill up real-world graveyards and have to be carted off and stacked up somewhere else. Imagine the internet as a virtual version of the Catacombs of Paris or the Sedlec Ossuary, a digital museum whose aura of human involvement is concealed behind a brittle carapace of hyperlinks, tweets and forgotten comments."

The dead shall walk among us | things magazine (via jomc)

I can’t help but sorta look forward to this. Maybe the dead will spontaneously come back to life online, like ISOs in Tron. 

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A great read.  Thanks for sharing.

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