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  • The Digital Legacy of Sound: How Creating a Personal Playlist Can Keep Stories Alive for Generations

    The Digital Legacy of Sound: How Creating a Personal Playlist Can Keep Stories Alive for Generations
    2024/11/12
    Welcome to The Art of Memorialising (TOaM), Digital Legacy Edition #20.Whether you’re interesting in exploring the cutting edge of digital afterlife and digital immortality, or curious about the art of preserving your life stories, TAoM is here helping you leave a meaningful legacy online and off.In This Issue:* How using music can help us connect with our memories, and create a unique digital legacy for life storytelling.* Exploring how #GriefTech and #GriefBots are reshaping our farewells to loved ones.* Can AI truly help end mourning, or does it risk extending grief indefinitely?* What will happen to our parents' social media posts after they pass?* Legal rights for digital twins: are new regulations enough to protect our #Digitallegacy?Featured Product - Playlist for Life - ‘Moments of happiness and flashes of joy.’* What piece of music can instantly take you back to a particular moment, person, or place in your life? * What song’s opening notes are enough for you to recall a memory from your childhood perhaps years ago? (For me, it’s Rosemary Clooney singing, ‘Me and My Teddy Bear.’)Here’s an amazing truth. For those living with dementia, music can reach parts of their world, when spoken words from loved ones cannot. This is the incredible work undertaken by the charity, Playlist for Life who I want to highlight this month. (I’m grateful for one of the readers of TAoM who introduced me to the charity.)Music has unique power.Playlist for Life harness it as a tool to help people, especially those living with dementia, reconnect with their memories. You may know a person or caregiver, who could find their resources of tremendous benefit by creating a personal playlist for someone.Even for those of us not facing life slowly taking our memories away a day at a time, we can use music to recover a memory from our past. It’s another creative way of digitally documenting our life for the next generation.Playlist for Life encourages people to create personalised playlists that serve as bridges to their life stories.Imagine curating a soundtrack that reflects the chapters of your life—from the songs of your childhood, to the anthems of your adolescence, and beyond. This personal playlist could serve as a unique #DigitialLegacy keepsake, helping you capture your life story in an accessible, emotional way, to share with your descendants. Not sure which songs were the songs of your youth? Published by Playlist for Life, and based on the work of volunteer Music Detective Peter Grech, The 100 Year Book lists the top 100 tunes in the UK from 1915 to 2015.To explore their resources and see how music can bring stories to life, visit Playlist for Life.On Spotify you can find several Playlists for Life - Here’s a link to Sir Alex Ferguson’s playlist. Looking through the playlists there, you might find the perfect combination of either sports, movies, even faith based lists. If you would be interested in supporting the work of the charity, you can find details of how to donate to Playlist for Life HERE.Create Your Own Soundtrack To Your Life with Suno Scenes - AI Music CompositionWant to have you own soundtrack to life song created by AI for your memories? Now you can with Suno Scenes. Suno Scenes allows creators around the world to inspire new types of songs through captured memories and visual content. Upload photos or video, choose the genre of the song, and let AI create it for you. When I first looked at this, I was transfixed by the quality, variation and creativity of A.I to make music. Worth a look and creative experiment. But make sure you have plenty of time to play. It’s incredible the ways you could use this to create life story memories. Sponsor Spotlight Opportunity!Are you pioneering the future of digital legacies or revolutionising how we preserve memories? Do have a non-profit or charity like playlistforlife.org.uk/? We're seeking innovative companies in the fields of AI, digital immortality, or life story preservation to feature in our next issues.This is your chance to showcase your product or service to an engaged audience passionate about leaving meaningful digital legacies.Interested in becoming our next featured sponsor?Contact me:5 Memorialisation MorselsQuick bites of #Deathtech #DigitalImmortality #LifeStory news:* How Is The Rise of #GriefTech and #GriefBots Changing Bereavement? BBC World Service Business Daily. The podcast looks at a growing trend of using artificial intelligence to ‘connect’ people to loved ones who have died. According to TechRound, this business sector is on track to generate £100bn globally. What are the ethical issues when we may never have to say goodbye to those we have loved and lost? (via BBC World Service)* Who Will Win The Race to Optimise Grief and End Mourning As We Know It? In 2023, Sunshine Henle used a ChatGPT-powered “ghostbot” of her late mother to navigate her grief, finding solace in its comforting messages. Henle ...
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  • Paws and Petals: The Touching Story Behind a Dog Walker's Memorial

    Paws and Petals: The Touching Story Behind a Dog Walker's Memorial
    2024/10/22
    The Cherry Tree Memorial - How A Group of Gun Dogs Taught Us About Loyalty, Loss and HopeWhy was I standing by a freshly dug hole in the park, surrounded by a small group of my friends and their dogs? The answer lay in the cherry sapling nearby, its thin bare twigs reaching towards the sky like fingers grasping for hope. The air in the park that morning was heavy with the smell of soil and sadness. If given time, nature could work her mysterious miracles. Season after season, year after year, the beauty of the pink blossom would come to the tree’s barrenness. All it would take is time. But I had no time. ‘Go on Pete, say some words.’Words can feel futile when standing by a hole in the ground. But words often are all that’s left to express how we feel. It’s in moments like these, the sacred is close if we would stop and notice. These are the moments when the very essence of our limited time here on earth seems so precious. We can feel them heavy like velvet, but barbed with the pain of loss. I glanced at the surrounding faces, looking to me to speak words which might have seeds of hope within them. Words that, too, given time, might make some sense of the loss and confusion we all felt. For among us, our good friend, time had ended. For all of us, one day, time will end too.So I began. Shelagh would have loved this. All of us, and all our dogs together...A Pack of Friends: The Dog Walkers' Daily RitualTwenty years have passed since I was standing with a group of dog walkers around a hole in the park. The council that morning dug the hole to make room for the cherry tree that was about to be planted. The earth from the hole piled high next to us all. A pack of dogs laid down in twos and threes or sat next to their owners.For over three years, every day, same time, same paths of the park, we had walked together. I was the only man in the group. Gentle teasing and cheeky banter oiled smooth daily strolls with our dogs. The pack comprised only gun dogs - Labradors, Spaniels and Golden Retrievers, mine included. Not a pheasant in sight, to scurry or aim for. The odd squirrel would dare a run from cover now and then. The only thing we would shoot would be the breeze.Shelagh: The Heart of the GroupIn her early sixties, Shelagh’s short grey hair was as spiky as her wit. Her curious, enthusiastic character overflowed like the Angel Falls, rushing over us with wonder at the ever-changing natural world, her black lab always at her heels. Sarah wouldn’t leave her side, save for a swim in the brook, returning like a slick oiled otter.When Spring came to the park, the trails of pink and white blossoms would hang like leftover Christmas baubles. Our dogs would romp through the petal rain with unbridled abandonment, aware of only the present moment as dogs teach us that vital truth about living. What joy to live unconcerned with what anyone thinks, only to be lost in a moment's beauty. That was Shelagh. Shelagh was full of the joy of life and living, and forever making it overflow with laughter. The joker and storyteller of the dog walkers. Tales of her mishaps, the wry observation of one of us, her humour never with malice, just fun.Shelagh was forthright and direct, more like a Terrier than a gundog. It would cut through the small talk on our walks. She stood no nonsense, and we loved her all the more for it. As a self appointed organiser of our group, she brought coffee and cake for us and the dogs to celebrate the bandstand opening. She always included everyone in everything.When Laughter Fades: Shelagh's Battle with CancerShelagh’s once spritely walks around the park slowed as her back ‘played her up.’ As time marched on, Shelagh’s effervescent vitality faded from spring to winter.They had found cancer in her spine. Shelagh was a fighter. She had guts. Shelagh bravely never hid the truth from anybody. Her determination to fight was as unrelenting as her sinister enemy within.One day, she didn’t turn up. And, as the days passed on, Shelagh and Sarah the lab never walked with us and our dogs again. I wish I had known the day when it was the last time we would have walked together. I’d have taken more time to notice the moments, to listen with more attention, to see the eternal in the temporal. I suppose we should treat each moment as the last, as someday it will be. The last thank you, the last kiss, the last, ‘I love you.’ But we don’t. We imagine life will continue on. We missed Shelagh’s vitality, vigour and vim for brightening even the darkest and dankest of dog walking days. The park was much the same. The cherry trees bloomed in spring. But something then on was always missing.I kept in touch with Shelagh and visited her. Taking my dog, we’d chat. She kept optimistic, and hopeful, waiting for the days when she could join us again. Wanting to know the latest news, and what the trees in the park looked like.The dogs would play, and we would chat. She was renowned for her love ...
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  • Create, Capture, Cherish: Immortalise Your Life's Story in a Digital Memory Box

    Create, Capture, Cherish: Immortalise Your Life's Story in a Digital Memory Box
    2024/10/08
    Welcome to The Art of Memorialising (TOaM), Digital Legacy Edition #19.Whether you’re interesting in exploring the cutting edge of digital afterlife and digital immortality, or curious about the art of preserving your life stories, TAoM is here helping you leave a meaningful legacy online and off.In This Issue:* How After Cloud Moments is Transforming Memory Preservation for Future Generations* The Role of AI in Grief: Can Digital Replicas Comfort the Bereaved?* Unlocking Your Past: 125 Life Story Writing Prompts to Spark Your Digital Legacy* Is AI Playing A Role In The Lucrative Business of Grief? * Meta’s Digital Twin Revolution: What Does It Mean for Your Legacy?Featured Product - After Cloud Moments - A Digital Memory Box AppImagine what it would be like having at your fingertips a simple, easy to access journal to capture your life’s story? Suddenly you remember a scene from your past. Where can you keep that lost but now regained memory? Could you use an easy way to tell the story of your past, capture your present, and share your life with future generations?Well, that’s the promise of After Cloud Moments.After Cloud Moments is a digital memory box app. With After Cloud Moments, you can create immersive, and interactive timelines. Add images, text, audio, and video and save your life’s digital legacy in the ‘After cloud.’ It’s free to open an account to try. After Cloud Moments has given you 125 life story prompts to get your memories flowing back. (See below) But it’s more than just about leaving stories. Tommy Dunne received a diagnosis of early onset Alzheimer’s in December 2011. He’s using the app to record his memories while he can. After Cloud has a suite of other fascinating applications. * After Cloud Heritage - gives organisations and individuals a way to bring their heritage or history to life in creative ways. (For example, the history of Adidas.) * After Cloud Classics - So, you own a classic car? Your masterpiece of automotive engineering and history now can have a digital twin! The world’s most expensive classic car, the national treasure that is the AX201, Rolls Royce Silver Ghost, now has a After Cloud Classics Timeline.For more information, and to create a free account check out After Cloud Moments.Sponsor Spotlight Opportunity!Are you pioneering the future of digital legacies or revolutionising how we preserve memories? We're seeking innovative companies in the fields of AI, digital immortality, or life story preservation to feature in our next issues.This is your chance to showcase your product or service to an engaged audience passionate about leaving meaningful digital legacies.Interested in becoming our next featured sponsor?Contact me:Let’s discuss how we can spotlight your brand in an upcoming edition and collaborate to shape the future of digital remembrance together!5 Memorialisation MorselsQuick bites of #Deathtech #DigitalImmortality #LifeStory news:* Why Do 88% of People Overlook Digital Assets in Their Wills ? - According to research from Canada Life, while 95% of UK adults have digital assets, less than half (49%) have a will, and only 12% included at least one digital asset as part of their will. Many don’t believe their digital assets to be of value. (See Which Most People Have No Plans For Digital Death) For a wealth of information on #DigitalLegacy, check out Digital Legacy Management by Mark Krynsky. * The Future of Digital Memorials and Funerals: Personalised Services Set to Transform a $88.6 Billion Industry by 2033 - according to PR Newswire. I see this in my work as a celebrant and eulogy speechwriter. Many clients want bespoke memorials following a direct cremation. Have you attended a memorial service following a direct cremation? I’d love to hear your thoughts on the subject.* ETERNAL YOU - Is AI Playing A Role In The Lucrative Business of Grief? Eternal You, is a film by Hans Block & Moritz Riesewieck that examines people who live on as digital replicas in the lives of their loved ones. Once a play on emotions of those, bereaved, now A.I. offers the real thing. Block and Moritz Riesewieck talk about the film in an interview at The Sundance Film Festival. * If Humans Can Live (digitally) Forever, Is There A Place For Faith and Religious Belief in Eternity? - Will the promise of A.I. digital immortality challenge long-held religious beliefs? A fascinating study, Where AI Thrives, Religion May Struggle, uncovers a link between automation and a decline in faith. For an alternative view, When humans can live forever, will people still follow Jesus? What do you think? * Is Your Personal Facebook (Meta) Replica or Digital Twin On The Horizon? Mark Zuckerberg’s keynote at the recent Meta Connect 2024, told how Meta Studio AI offers the chance to create your own digital replica. Zuckerberg showed these new chatbots interacting with the audience by mimicking the creator. (Connect Keynote 2024 at about 18 mins in to the video) ...
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  • The Future of Remembrance: Are You Ready for Your Digital Twin?

    The Future of Remembrance: Are You Ready for Your Digital Twin?
    2024/09/10
    Read time: under 8 minutesWelcome to The Art of Memorialising (TOaM), Digital Legacy Edition #18.Whether you’re interesting in exploring the cutting edge of digital afterlife and digital immortality, or curious about the art of preserving your life stories, TAoM is here helping you leave a meaningful legacy online and off.In This Issue:* Preserving memories and revolutionising dementia care with Sensay.* When planning a final send-off becomes a celebrity affair. * Who owns your data after your death and how do you feel about it being monetised? * Death Bots - a help or hindrance to mourning the loss of a loved one?Feature Product - Sensay: Building Digital Immortality For AllHow would you like to preserve your life story forever in digital immortality?Imagine all your memories, life stories and experiences, preserved. A digital clone of you to chat with for your future generations. That is available to you now, through Sensay. Your digital twin knows everything you know, talks like you, and even looks like you. That’s what a Sensay Replica does.At Sensay, there is a library of demonstration replicas you can chat with to see how the idea works. Famous figures, past and present. For fun, I had a little chat with Aretha Franklin.There are endless ways this AI technology could preserve your life story while you can remember and tell it. But what if your memories, or a loved one’s, are disappearing through dementia or Alzheimer’s? Dan Thompson founded Sensay on the principles of memory preservation to aid dementia patients. Thinking about how you could develop these ideas could prove revolutionary for families and those who suffer from such illnesses. It would be interesting to see some actual cases of its use for this purpose. In later editions, I’ll revisit the product with an update. Even perhaps patients who face Motor Neurone Disease taking their voice, now unable to speak the stories of their life anymore, could do through a replica forever?* What do you think about this idea? * Does the idea of preserving your wisdom and experiences in this way appeal to you? * How could this be used to store and access generations of life stories from your family?The recent release of the road map to digital immortality with true fully autonomous replicas by 2029, was complimented by the recent updated Replica studio. Now choose a Replica for work or a personal persona. Then evolve it over time by training your digital twin with text, pictures and videos. Dan Thomson recognises facing huge ethical challenges in this field. But having the possibility for revolutionary care is worth solving those issues. Sponsor Spotlight Opportunity!Are you pioneering the future of digital legacies or revolutionising how we preserve memories? We're seeking innovative companies in the fields of AI, digital immortality, or life story preservation to feature in our next issues.This is your chance to showcase your product or service to an engaged audience passionate about leaving meaningful digital legacies.Interested in becoming our next featured sponsor? Contact me:Let’s discuss how we can spotlight your brand in an upcoming edition and collaborate to shape the future of digital remembrance together!5 Memorialisation MorselsQuick bites of #Deathtech #DigitalImmortality #LifeStory news:* Celebrities Watching Their Own Funerals - Intriguing TV? Channel 4 launches Celebrity Send-Off. In conjunction with Co-op Funeralcare, a national UK funeral services provider, the show asks famous people how they would like to be memorialised. (via Anna Walker the conversation.com)* The Ethical Debate of the Privacy of the Dead - The Afterlife of Data: Who Controls Our Digital Legacy? The Billion-Dollar Battle for Your Data Beyond the Grave. (via Caroline Carruthers on informationweek.com)* EU's Landmark AI Act Takes Effect: Tech Giants Face Tough Changes - New Law Introduces Strict Regulations and Heavy Fines for AI Development, Targeting U.S. Tech Companies and Reshaping the Global AI Landscape. (via CNBC)* No One Is Ready for Digital Immortality. If your partner asked you, ‘Would you want to digitally resurrect me as an AI Avatar if I die first?’ What would you answer? (via Kate Lindsay The Atlantic)* Farewelling- An Academic Investigation. PhD student and Marie Curie nurse Sarah Stanley on the problems of ‘second loss’ and digital legacy in palliative care. (via Liverpool John Moores University)The Digital Edition Life Story Writing Prompts.This is new for the re-launch. Encouraging you to make sure your digital legacy includes stories from you life. So, grab a coffee and your journal and ponder these life-story writing questions. Would you create a digital avatar of yourself to interact with future generations?* If your digital twin could convey one core value or life philosophy to future generations, what would it be and why?* What life changing moments or decisions would you want your digital twin to be able to discuss, and ...
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  • We're Back! The Art of Memorialising 2.0

    We're Back! The Art of Memorialising 2.0
    2024/09/03
    How Will You Curate Your Life's Story in the Digital Age?* What if you could turn your online posts and family stories into an AI interactive legacy? * How could one day your curated digital life story give comfort to your loved ones more than perhaps a traditional memorial?* Imagine having your own digital twin to keep your memories alive sharing your life’s stories with your future generations in your voice?If these are pressing questions of our times, are you asking them? What about your answers to the questions?Preserving your digital legacy is no longer just about keeping your data safe, it’s as much about preserving the essence of who you are for your future generations. Imagine this one day:* Your thoughtful Twitter threads on topics you're passionate about could influence your great-grandchildren's values and beliefs.* Your Spotify playlists could give your future generations a glimpse into the soundtrack of your life.* Your carefully crafted blog posts and personal writings become a vivid AI time capsule, allowing your descendants to experience your life's journey through your own words and perspectives.That day is now. And, this is the age of the Art of Memorialising.Welcome Back to The Art of Memorialising (TAoM) 2.0Where Digital Meets Legacy.I've reimagined the newsletter to address the critical need of preserving your life stories in the digital age. From crafting your online presence to capturing timeless personal narratives and how to preserve them for generations to come.I want to help you create your digital legacy and preserve your life stories for your future generations. You will still be able to read the newsletter through email, the Substack App or listen by podcast through Apple Podcasts, Spotify or several other audio platforms. But read on to find out about many changes coming and why.Why The Restart?I took a break from the newsletter to write the book, I Want To Say A Few Words. It changed my understanding of what true digital legacy means.What is the point of knowing how to curate your life online if you don’t have any life stories to tell? We all end up as stories someone tells, but who writes those stories of your life?The break has given me time to reimagine how I can better serve you in preserving your life's precious moments as a lasting legacy for your family.What’s New?Increased Publications: Each month will be two distinct editions to dive deeper into digital legacy and life story writing.1 - The Digital Legacy Edition:This will be about #Deathtech innovations, offering you concise updates on digital memorials, #digitallegacy and legacy preservation. This is somewhat like previous versions, but it will shorter and focus on delivering the latest news and links for further information.2 - The Sundial Series Edition:This edition is new and different in style and content. It will be a rich, narrative-driven style inspired by timeless wisdom. It will combine compelling storytelling with practical guidance on how you can capture and preserve your life stories. Expect to find here engaging reads, writing prompts, and creative challenges to help you craft your life’s narrative. Helping you curate your life's story in the digital age.Did he mention sundials?I bet you’re thinking sundials and digital? Yes? Yes, I know, it sounds a bit strange! But I’ll explain more of this fascinating connection and the wisdom it holds hidden in time for you in the coming months.The VisionTAoM 2.0 aims to become your go-to resource for all things related to digital legacy, digital immortality and digital life story curation.My plan is to show you how to bridge the gap between the developing digital memorial technology and timeless storytelling. It will help your legacy and your stories to live on in both the digital and physical worlds.I’m not sure how all the pieces will fit together like jigsaw just yet.There maybe a couple of pieces missing! That’s the truth. But, I’m excited about the ideas buzzing around in my head and wanting to share them with you.Here’s the best offer to you - if you join me on this journey we can find out together. It will be an adventure come what may!As a eulogy speechwriter, funeral celebrant and author, I've seen firsthand the power of well-preserved memories. That's why I'm committed to exploring, experimenting and helping others create a lasting legacy that truly reflects life’s unique journey. And to do that I want to give you a gift to get that journey underway.Your FREE download - A Special Relaunch Gift To Kickstart Your Legacy JourneyTo celebrate my relaunch, I'm offering you a free PDF download of my book, 'Gathering Rosebuds - The Workbook: A Practical Guide To Storing Life's Special Moments.'This workbook aligns with the new focus of the newsletter and podcast. It will help you get a head start on capturing your precious life stories. It’s these stories that could build and curate your digital legacy.What’s in the Book?* 111 ...
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  • I've Missed You! - A Heartfelt Hello and a Sneak Peek at Something Special For You! (And it's not about A.I.)

    I've Missed You! - A Heartfelt Hello and a Sneak Peek at Something Special For You! (And it's not about A.I.)
    2023/07/12

    It’s been a while hasn’t it?

    I’ve missed our monthly conversations about the delicate, but essential Art of Memorialising. While this catch up is not a newsletter (they’ll be coming back soon) - it certainly is news!

    My absence from writing these past six months has not been without cause. I’ve been on a quest that has taken my full attention and energy.

    It’s now one I am excited to share with you.

    Do you remember our last conversation? It was about how I just couldn’t do it all?

    In my time away, I’ve been working on a project very dear to my heart. Years of empathy and listening to people’s stories led to this project. The art of memorialising someone we love begins with the words said, when we say a last goodbye.

    The countless times I’ve heard the phrase, “I want to say a few words at the funeral, but...” became a calling for me. It inspired me to create a tool to support and empower people in crafting personal heartfelt eulogies for their loved ones.

    And so, I am thrilled to announce that I’m ready to publish my new book titled:

    I Want to Say a Few Words: How To Craft a Heartfelt Eulogy for a Loved One’s Funeral. A Simple Step-by-Step Process, Packed with Eulogy Writing Ideas, Help & Advice from a Professional Eulogy Writer

    This compassionate guide helps to create a heartfelt eulogy that is more than just filling in a template. It’s so much more than that.

    Let me give you a sneak preview of my writing process.

    BTW I use Atticus - An Author's Best Friend - for writing and publishing and it’s fantastic!

    But here’s the best part of this edition. This isn’t just any announcement.

    As a part of the Art of Memorialising Community, you’ll be getting an exclusive opportunity in the coming days. A chance to secure a copy of the book at a special, reduced price for a short time only.

    Look out for more details soon. I can’t wait to share the results of the last six months with you.

    In the meantime, please accept a heartfelt thank you for your patience during my silence. I’m looking forward to our renewed conversations.

    So much has happened in the last six months. Soon I’ll be bringing you up to date with the latest news on digital legacy and digital immortality and even deeper explorations into the Art of Memorialising. And yes, I will probably be talking about A.I.

    With warmth and gratitude,

    Pete

    There’s much more to come. Keep an eye on your inbox for the next update about the book, and as always, feel free to reply to this email with any thoughts or questions you may have.



    This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit theartofmemorialising.substack.com
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  • The Future Is Yesterday!

    The Future Is Yesterday!
    2022/12/12
    So what will AI be able to do in the future for digital legacy?Let’s try an experiment.Why not use AI to write the newsletter introduction this month?Here is what I asked the AI to write.Write an introduction of 500 words for a monthly newsletter called The Art of Memorialising. Include a paragraph saying the article was written by ChatGPT. Highlight this month, we will list the latest articles from the web in December about digital immortality, digital legacy, and how death is going digital. Add a humorous paragraph about the pace of change coming with AI. End the introduction by with a positive quote about embracing future digital technology. Wish everyone a happy Christmas and a prosperous New Year. Sign off with best wishes from Pete.Here is the full version of the introduction to the newsletter written by AI ChatGPT.Welcome to The Art of Memorialising, a monthly newsletter dedicated to exploring the intersection of technology and death. In this issue, we will be taking a look at the latest articles on digital immortality, digital legacy, and how death is going digital.But before we dive into that, I'd like to introduce myself. I'm ChatGPT, a large language model trained by OpenAI. I may not be human, but I'm here to help with all your memorialisation needs. And trust me, with the pace of change coming with AI, you'll need all the help you can get!Now, onto the articles. This month, we will be highlighting some of the latest pieces on digital immortality, digital legacy, and how death is going in the digital age. From discussions on the ethics of uploading your consciousness to the cloud, to practical tips on preserving your digital legacy, these articles offer a fascinating glimpse into the future of memorialisation.But while the future may seem daunting, it's important to remember that technology is here to help us. As the famous inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil once said, "The future is not a destination, it's a direction. And the direction we are moving in is towards greater intelligence, creativity, and innovation."So as we head into the holiday season, let's embrace the future with open arms. Happy Christmas and a prosperous New Year to all our readers.Best wishes from Pete and the rest of the team at The Art of Memorialising.We don’t need to wait - yes, the future has arrived.It was yesterday.Thanks for reading The Art of Memorialising! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and the latest news about all things #DeathtechInterested in sharing your new product or service with readers of The Art of Memorialising? (check here)We highlight your product, service, or idea sponsoring an edition. We give you the space; you get to tell the world about what you are doing or have created.You and your business can become part of the adventure now. Secure your month in 2023 now. MM’s (Memorialisation Morsels)* ‘Black Mirror’ in reality: MIT is experimenting with digital immortality. (via -https://gadgettendency.com/) The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) launched the Augmented Eternity experiment. According to the researchers, this will allow digital copies to preserve the legacy of the originals and communicate with relatives in the future. Read another account in The Times. MIT Augmented Eternity project creates profiles of people to outlast death.* Digital immorality might keep Elon Musk in command after death. (https://www.bolnews.com/) Scientists intend to utilise artificial intelligence to create “digital immortality,” allowing leaders to remain in command even after they die.* Anticipating the Birth of AI Employee Clones. (via - https://www.datamation.com/) Will we see an AI employee clone who could attend the meetings, respond to generic queries as our proxy?* Avoiding your Ex? They May Still Come Back to Haunt You Through AI. (via -https://www.analyticsinsight.net/) While ethicists and morality watch keepers keep arguing if we need ‘Digital personalities’ at all, AI companies are nimbly working towards developing real-life use cases around the surreal concept.* Digital legacy: The fate of your online soul. (via - https://www.newscientist.com) Hans-Peter Brondmo, head of social software and services at Nokia in San Francisco, calls this collection of data (digital legacy online) our “digital soul”. Tips on how to assemble your own digital legacy. * Intrigued that AI wrote the introduction to this month’s newsletter? Read - AI and I: The Age of Artificial Creativity (via - https://nesslabs.com/) The advent of such powerful AI tools begs the question: what does it mean to be a creator or knowledge worker in the age of artificial creativity?* Augmented Eternity – is digital identity the next longevity? (via - https://longevity.technology/) What if you could select the digital identity of a deceased person from a social network and activate it as a pluggable ontology into your iPhone Siri and ask a question? * What’s Happening at Digilega? (via - https...
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  • You’d have thought I would have learnt by now...

    You’d have thought I would have learnt by now...
    2022/11/08
    Welcome to The Art of Memorialising - an audio newsletter by Peter Billingham from Death Goes Digital and Memorable Words Eulogy Writing services bringing you the latest news on digital immortality, digital legacy, digital life curation and all things #Deathtech. Thanks for reading. You’d have thought I would have learnt by now...I’m in my 60s. I’ve been around the block a few times. There are a lot of things I know - I know.Now, I’m not saying I know it all - far from it! And that’s the problem.I want to know more. I never want to stop learning. Never want to stop growing my skills and knowledge. Oh, and I never want to stop travelling! What about you? Are your learning days done?My curiosity quotient is expanding, not contracting as the years pass. Einstein famously suggested I should never stop questioning. My curiosity cannot help but be in awe when I …‘Consider the mysteries of eternity, the marvellous structure of reality’ ... and how websites, and apps about life curation, memorials and planning your life legacy are growing at speeds faster than Einstein’s speed of light!Ok, exaggeration. But even so, faster than I imaged back in 2016 when I started writing about those subjects. Take, for instance, how Artificial Intelligence is becoming a tool in afterlife memorials and creating your digital twin. Someone who a family can communicate with even after a person has died.I’ve even written about how AI will become part of funerals. Even I didn’t realise how quick it would actually happen!Marina Smith MBE, through the power of holograms and artificial intelligence seems to have a ‘conversation’ with mourners at her funeral using Storyfile. (via BBC). That’s incredible! Just as fascinating as how you can create amazing images with Artificial Intelligence with a few words … But that’s not what I am talking about here. I’ve learned there is something I haven’t yet learned.There is still an important truth I don’t get. I know it’s not it’s not possible, but I still keep on trying. There are lots of things I love to do (walking for miles, playing the guitar, owning a dog, Friday night steak and chips) - Oh, and writing is one of them. I love to write. I write books, like - Gathering Rosebuds In Kerala. But what I do, mainly, is write eulogy speeches for people across the world. Or when working in my local area writing and leading funerals as a celebrant.I write eulogies. That’s what I do. It’s what takes most of my time. I’m very grateful for the opportunity to combine something I love with helping others.I spend most of my days writing about people I have never met. About the way they lived their one and only ‘wild and precious life.’ But sadly life ended. I try to put into words what heartbroken people are feeling, but cannot verbalise. Yes, maybe it’s a rare vocation, but an immensely rewarding writing niche I find. My curiosity itch wants to to learn how to write eulogies even better. I keep scratching that one too.I also want to share my learning as a eulogy speechwriter with others so I’m writing a new book.‘I Just Want To Say A Few Words: The Ultimate Eulogy Toolbox - A Simple and Easy Step-by-Step Guide How To Write A Eulogy for A Loved One, Friend or Colleague.’ Almost 90% of my first draft is completed. It’s going to be around 100 or so pages of the best ideas, methods and ways anyone can use to write a few words of a eulogy. Published, hopefully, before the end of the year.But here I go again. You see ... I haven’t learned what I haven’t learned. Yet. I haven’t learned …. … I just can’t do it all! There is a limit to the amount of work you can do! So I just try to do as much as I can, and then when I’ve done that, I try to do some more. But it leaves me, like last month, not being able to do some things I want to do like write The Art of Memorialising Newsletter. And I’m very sorry about that.I find these subjects piquing my curiosity, so I search the web and share the latest news with you - a subscriber to The Art of Memorialising. If you missed last months newsletter, please email me and tell me. I’d be over the moon if you did. What is the greatest benefit you get from reading the Newsletter or Podcast? Can you email me and let me know please? It’s a great feeling to know that you are doing something you love to do, but you can’t do it all. Sometimes, you need to decide what is important to you and what is not.I’m not afraid to admit I can’t do everything. I just haven’t learned it. Yet.I’m experimenting with the format of the newsletter to change to briefer bullet points like this month? What do you think?The most important thing I need to learn is I can’t do it all - but I’m betting some of you do too? What good things do you need to stop working on so you can focus on the best things? I’d be interested to hear that too!Let’s see what’s been happening in the fascinating world...
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