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 App
Imagine 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.
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5 Memorialisation Morsels
Quick 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) Will they soon offer to add this to your Meta profile? Interesting or plain weird?
Featured Product Update - Sensay
Last month, we highlighted Sensay and their quest to prevent the loss of human knowledge by creating a Sensay Replica-your digital twin. Your responses were interesting! From outright creepy to fascination. Many could see the endless opportunities for the use of an A.I. Replica. Sensay released several new features at their September Summit. (via techtechbullion)
Dan Thomson, the founder of Sensay, sees not only the potential of digital immortality for those loved ones we have lost, but suggests, for those living, a case for employee cloning. No more sick days there then! (Via verdict.co.uk)
The Digital Edition Life Story Writing Prompts.
(Not 5 this month but 125 FREE Life Writing Prompts!)
New for TAoM - These Life Story writing prompts are to encourage 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.
Thanks to After Cloud, our featured product this month, for sharing 125 life writing prompts.
You Can Access The FREE PDF of Life Story Writing Prompts Here.
In The Next Issue: The Sundial Series Edition
Paws and Petals: The Touching Story Behind a Dog Walker's Memorial
Ever wondered what dogs can teach us about life, loss, and loyalty?
In this post I will share a touching story from my local park, where a group of dog walkers and their furry companions taught me profound lessons about friendship, grief, and the beauty of living in the moment.
Discover how a simple cherry tree became a powerful symbol of remembrance, and why I now see every spring blossom as a gentle reminder to cherish each fleeting moment.
For, ‘In this moment hangs eternity.’
Heard of a startup in #Deathtech? Please let me know.
Until the next edition of The Art of Memorialising, thanks for reading!
Pete
PS: Whether we're discussing digital memorials or pen-and-paper memoirs, remember: your story matters. Let's make sure it's told, preserved, and cherished for your generations to come.
Create, Capture, Cherish: Immortalise Your Life's Story in a Digital Memory Box