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It's an interesting "tech" moment when something like this happens. It's worth pondering the nature of mortality and how the technology we delve into relates t
by amatecha 3y ago
It's an interesting "tech" moment when something like this happens. It's worth pondering the nature of mortality and how the technology we delve into relates to that. Like another commenter said, how will my online acquaintances learn about it if I were to suddenly die unexpectedly? Would it be years? Would a family member manage to make a post or two on various stuff my computers are still signed into? Maybe it's worth planning ahead for, even. Who knows. Definitely an interesting (and sad) thing to see IMO and certainly conjures some thoughts...
- aaron695 3y agoIt's trivial to pull heart strings by posting this stuff. But we've had over two decades of people dying on blogs and social media and it's exploded now in some sort of weird graph with age and usage increasing online. Being so common at this stage it's a fair question, was this person one of our own? Or what in particular about this situation is interesting?
- brvsft 3y ago[flagged]
- amatecha 3y agoI mean, not everyone is going to find it interesting (and I already explained something in particular that's interesting about it -- the intersection of tech and mortality).
- pcdoodle 3y agoSorry to hijack but pretty much all your other comments are censored on HN. Why can't we have interesting conversations here?