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Politics & Society

Resurrection Consent: It’s Time to Talk About Our Digital Afterlives

Your friend dies in a car crash. A company can resurrect her online avatar based on her digital footprint. Should you agree? A new study captures attitudes to the digital resurrection scenarios that will face us soon.

SciencePOD | 04.01.2024

Science & Technology

Dieter Meiller und Magdalena Kayser-Meiller über “Unterwegs im Cybercamper”

Als Ada L. bloggt die Protagonistin des Buchs „Unterwegs im Cyber-Camper“ über die digitale Welt und was sie im Inneren zusammenhält. In unserem neuesten Book Talk sprachen wir mit den Köpfen hinter dem Projekt.

Magdalena Kayser-Meiller, Dieter Meiller, Ute Skambraks | 03.08.2023

Arts & Humanities

Andrew Orr on “The Gay Girl in Damascus Hoax”

In our latest book talk with historian Andrew Orr, we explore the story of an elaborate internet hoax surrounding the (fictional) life of a Syrian-American lesbian woman during the Arab spring. Why were educated and politically engaged westerners so susceptible to believing it?

Andrew Orr, Rabea Rittgerodt | 30.05.2023

Arts & Humanities

Can We Cheat Death via Mind-Uploading?

Can the sum of knowledge and experience we’ve accumulated over a lifetime live on after we die? The concept of “mind-uploading” is a modern version of an age-old human dream. Transhumanism hopes to not only enhance human capacities but even transcend human limitations such as bodily death.

Georg Gasser | 13.07.2022

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