Why would anyone care how popular they are when they’re dead ?!
I mean, sure, wanting to be popular and remembered for ever and ever
(Like Ozymandias, for example) is a common human trait. I wouldn’t get
riled over someone who does something to help make himself remembered,
and gain a name for himself.
But to create a method to monitor your popularity, and have anyone who
express interest in you know how popular you are, after you’ve bitten
the bullet ?! That’s crazy…
And to create it as a closed technological solution that rely on
outside services, without forming any legal contract with those
service, that’s just plain stupid.
Enter the Ego Machine:
Sullivan said he wanted to create an urn that was visually interesting,
allowed some user interactivity and referenced the physical body. He
decided that his remains will be integrated into a computer processor.
A virtual agent running on the computer that contains his ashes will
scour the web for mentions of his name. As the mentions increase, an
on-screen image of Sullivan will morph into an image of his younger
self. But if the mentions decline, Sullivan’s image will age,
deteriorate and eventually fade away.
Yikes!
So I do very much hope this will remain just an art exhibit, but for
some reason I’m sure there are people out there who would take this too
seriously…
February 21st, 2005 at 0:04 EET | Categories: Miscellaneous |
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