Archive for the ‘Death + Technology’ Category
Social Networking’s Sudden Morbidity and Mortality
16, Aug 2010Twitter. And Facebook. And death. Future Tense with John Moe, American Public Media (August 16, 2010) Just recently, Twitter announced new guidelines on what it will do when a user dies. Twitter now joins the ranks of Facebook and Myspace in coming up with policies for dead members. We here at Death Ref have been [...]
- By: John
- In: Death + Technology|Death + the Web|Monuments + Memorials
- Tags: Facebook, memorializing, twitter
Head of the Household
16, Jul 2010Interesting article in last Sunday’s NY Times Magazine about cryonics; or more to the point, cryonocists and the people who love them. The article is fascinating for the fact that it delves not so much into the science informing cryonic preservation (as our last cryonics post did) but rather, about how differing beliefs about the [...]
- By: Kim
- In: Afterlife|Death + Humor|Death + Technology|Defying Death
- Tags: cryogenics, cryonics
The (Death) Singularity is Near
17, Jun 2010Merely Human? That’s So Yesterday Ashlee Vance, The New York Times (June 13, 2010) The Singularity movement sees a time when human beings and machines will merge and overcome illness and perhaps death. The tagline for this New York Times article is only partially correct. The Singularity movement and another group called the Transhumanists see [...]
- By: John
- In: Death + Biology|Death + Technology|Death Ethics
- Tags: bioethics, definition of death
Overtime and Under Stress
8, Jun 2010“Maybe this spate of suicides will also serve us as a wake-up call,” he said in an interview last week. “We realize we must do a better job.” —Louis Woo, a high-ranking Foxconn executive The NY Times has written another article about the Foxconn suicides. This follows a second pay raise by the company this [...]
Foxconn Raises Salaries
4, Jun 2010Today’s NY Times reports that Foxconn will raise employee’s salaries by 33 percent. Assembly line workers will now go from the equivalent of approximately $132 per month to $176 per month. A week earlier, company chairman Terry Gou, had promised to improve conditions at the factory and to quell the rash of suicides plaguing the [...]
- By: Kim
- In: Death + Technology|Suicide
- Tags: China, Foxconn