Internet Afterlife (ePub)
Virtual Salvation in the 21st Century
(Sprache: Englisch)
Can you imagine swapping your body for a virtual version? This technology-based look at the afterlife chronicles America's fascination with death and reveals how digital immortality may become a reality.
The Internet has reinvented the paradigm of life...
The Internet has reinvented the paradigm of life...
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Can you imagine swapping your body for a virtual version? This technology-based look at the afterlife chronicles America's fascination with death and reveals how digital immortality may become a reality.
The Internet has reinvented the paradigm of life and death: social media enables a discourse with loved ones long after their deaths, while gaming sites provide opportunities for multiple lives and life forms. In this thought-provoking work, author Kevin O'Neill examines America's concept of afterlife-as imagined in cyberspace-and considers how technologies designed to emulate immortality present serious challenges to our ideas about human identity and to our religious beliefs about heaven and hell.
The first part of the work-covering the period between 1840 and 1860-addresses post-mortem photography, cemetery design, and spiritualism. The second section discusses Internet afterlife, including online memorials and cemeteries; social media legacy pages; and sites that curate passwords, bequests, and final requests. The work concludes with chapters on the transhumanist movement, the philosophical and religious debates about Internet immortality, and the study of technologies attempting to extend life long after the human form ceases.
The Internet has reinvented the paradigm of life and death: social media enables a discourse with loved ones long after their deaths, while gaming sites provide opportunities for multiple lives and life forms. In this thought-provoking work, author Kevin O'Neill examines America's concept of afterlife-as imagined in cyberspace-and considers how technologies designed to emulate immortality present serious challenges to our ideas about human identity and to our religious beliefs about heaven and hell.
The first part of the work-covering the period between 1840 and 1860-addresses post-mortem photography, cemetery design, and spiritualism. The second section discusses Internet afterlife, including online memorials and cemeteries; social media legacy pages; and sites that curate passwords, bequests, and final requests. The work concludes with chapters on the transhumanist movement, the philosophical and religious debates about Internet immortality, and the study of technologies attempting to extend life long after the human form ceases.
Autoren-Porträt von Kevin O'Neill
Kevin O'Neill, PhD, is professor emeritus of philosophy and one of the founding members of the Johnston Center for Integrative Studies at the University of Redlands.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Kevin O'Neill
- Altersempfehlung: Ab 7 Jahre
- 2016, 1. Auflage, 264 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
- ISBN-10: 144083797X
- ISBN-13: 9781440837975
- Erscheinungsdatum: 08.08.2016
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- Größe: 1.67 MB
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