16 September 2005

memorialisation by GPS

There's a part of me that really likes this idea: "You choose the spot where you want to be buried, or a location that is close to your heart, be it a cliff top or a bar stool. People visit the spot with a mobile phone and only then does it activate a stream of information about the deceased person. “This may be in the form of words, pictures or even songs that commemorate the life of the individual. It is a kind of digital obituary."
It would mean that my preference for a woodland burial could be combined with a virtual memorial that isn't carved into the tree! The downside is that if there is a tech issue, then the memorial is gone. So if the systems are upgraded and become incompatible with the 'old' tech that the memorial is stored on ... There again stone erodes too.
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