Extention Of Presence
My
Room mate Alain and I talked about this back in the early 90's. J
Vernon Magee has extention of presence through his "Bible Bus" Radio
teaching ministry over the radio. Even though he is no longer physically
present he is digitally present and people are still responding to his
ministry. Does this go towards a greater reward in heaven for him?
Adrian Rogers teachings are still here on the radio even though he is
not.
Every Christian should have a website ministry or some sort of extention of presence.
And now my conversation with Alain has gone mainstream...
"Dave Winer's call for Future-Safe Archives goes mainstream in Rob Walker's NY Times Magazine cover story on how the Internet can provide a certain kind of immortality
to those who are prepared.
To illustrate how digital afterlives might
play out, Walker cites the case of 34-year-old writer Mac Tonnies, who
updated his blog on Oct. 18, 2009, sent out some public tweets and
private messages via Twitter, went to bed and died of cardiac
arrhythmia. As word of his death spread via his own blog,
Tonnies's small, but devoted audience rushed in to save his online
identity.
'Finding solace in a Twitter feed may sound odd,' writes
Walker, 'but the idea that Tonnies's friends would revisit and preserve
such digital artifacts isn't so different from keeping postcards or
other physical ephemera of a deceased friend or loved one.'
Unfortunately, how long Mac Tonnies's digital afterlife will remain for
his Web friends and parents is still a big question, since it's
preserved in a hodge-podge of possibly gone-tomorrow online services for
which no one has the passwords.
Hoping to fill the need for
digital-estate-planning services are companies like Legacy Locker,
which are betting that people will increasingly want control over their
digital afterlife. 'We're entering a world where we can all leave as
much of a legacy as George Bush or Bill Clinton,' says
filmmaker-and-friend-of-Tonnies Paul Kimball. 'Maybe that's the ultimate
democratization. It gives all of us a chance at immortality.'"
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