I enjoyed comparing the life of a machine with human life. There is a lot to say, but what struck me most was the question of the afterlife. Also in link to what K.G. Jung called “animus - anima”
What can we say about our personal websites when we pass away? What should we do with them? Let them live the “machine life” and disappear naturally, or have our descendants delete them? Provisions to be made in the last will? What do you think?
It greatly depends on the definition of “personal website“.
Other than my company/commercial website, I operate two websites personally: my personal site and bartonsontheweb.nl, which is my hobby website.
My personal website will not really serve a purpose after I die, so other than nostalgic or emotional reasons, my “descendants” (or the rest of the world) won’t have any use for it.
Bartonsontheweb.nl is another story - that’s not so much tied to me personally, but more of a place where people can read about a TV show from the 80s that only a few 40-somethings from the UK, Netherlands and Germany remember (probably). That will have a purpose after I’m gone I guess.
Cheers,
Erwin
I’ve written into my will the hope that all of my websites continue and that my daughter will continue to develop with the latest technologies
I want my websites to continue after I’m gone and I want my books and resources to continue
I’m researching an article about death and our digital footprint…
Do you want your ‘digital life’ as a computer generated facsimile from all your blogs, posts, photos, podcasts, videos to continue after you die?
It is already happening and is supposed to explode into a many billion dollar industry…
Imagine the fees they could charge to scrape the data - then the ongoing fee to keep the computer generated ‘you’ online - forever???
This is already occurring!!! Seriously….