Chapter 6. What You Leave Behind
We are becoming a digital culture, with digital assets. Before we go much further we need to answer the question:
“What happens to your digital stuff after you die?”
This is the central question that we strive to answer with this book. As it stands right now, with a little preparation, your data can live on for the next generation and possibly much longer. But the purpose and form of your data’s afterlife is still very much in flux.
A digital society must have a process to deal with digital assets after death just as our current society has a process to deal with physical assets. The pressure to answer this question will grow with each passing year. It will become imperative as younger generations, who fully ...
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