When Facebook Resurrected the Dead

http://tomscott.com - @tomscott - When Facebook claimed they could resurrect the dead, the world laughed. But Facebook were entirely serious.

I first came across the idea of recreating dead people from their works in the later chapters of Charles Stross' brilliant Accelerando - although those resimulations were a little more impressive. http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-...

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[TomSka]

Simultaneously fascinating and harrowing.

[Robin Doran]

Reminds me of the entire series of Caprica.

[Chris Moffatt]

Charlie Brooker nicked this idea for this year's series of Black Mirror!

[dollayx8]

imagine in midnight the dead people account suddenly ask u, already sleep ? can u go to window ? i am on the window waiting for you......

[VelvetSwine]

Better than Phillip k Dick. Write books?

[dollayx8]

yep it start from talk with simmi then improve to something more complex like human behavior but still if you asked about their new photo they could not show it or they appear in super cg model like life human just like in mgs2 GW commander

[avocadoinparadise]

LOL 2:19 about resurrecting Jesus!

[pegasigirl2010]

Whoa, that's my town on the billboard at 1:58.

[Orr Shomroni]

The beginning at least (chat based on statuses from Facebook, Twitter, Google+ etc.); the second stage (chatting) was new, not to mention the third

[adamjh2000]

So this is basically the story of the first episode of the second series of Black Mirror!?

[Johan Strandberg]

Brilliant. Inevitable... and I'm convinced that the YouTube inane comment quality will be "improved" immensely.

But, however creepy this might look at first glance, it will be nothing compared to the creep-out factor once Facebook starts to monetize the product. (Have you thought about how your dead mother will sometimes recommend products introduced _after_ she died?)

[Gunnar McGriff]

Agreed. My one complaint!