My friend Evan Carroll is working on an interesting project called The Digital Beyond. This project seeks to explore what happens to our online data after we die. We spend a lot of time creating gigabytes worth of data on all of our favorite social networks. What happens to that data when we pass on? I’ll be watching this project to see what they come up with. Here’s a good introductory video:
Posted by Evan Carroll on August 23, 2009 at 7:16 pm
Thanks for the post, Douglas. We’re hoping to enlighten people about the potential problem here and hopefully come up with some real ideas for solving it. Glad you liked the video, too. We should have another one out this week.