- Mood:
Wow! - Listening to: The Write Stuff
- Reading: Books for Dissertation
- Watching: Chuck
- Playing: Devil May Cry 4
- Eating: Sweets
- Drinking: Coke
Been thinking this week about one of my favourite obsessions, immortality.
Not that I particularly want immortality, you understand, I am just invested in the idea of it, no one can live forever and yet the concept of immortality pervades our fiction.
I was talking to my good friend James Moore a few days ago, and he posited the idea of "Digital Inheritance" as a way of continuing such exploits as webcomic's or vblogs after the death of the original creator. In this way such internet projects could continue long after the original artists have stopped submitting.
This is an interesting posit, but it's full impact has not yet been discussed. As long as this digital inheritance continues the content submitted by the original artist will still be there, unchanging, in exactly the same state as the day it was submitted and it will remain there until the site is taken down.
This is the closest thing to immortality that one can realistically think of.
Thank you for reading.