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我们中的很多人都在网路社群上占有一席之地。各种状态更新、微博及网际关系构成了虚拟的个性储存在云端数据中。亚当·奥斯丘提出了一个值得深思的问题：在我们死后，这种个人特色将何去何从？它还会继续存在吗？
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- By the end of this year,
- 截止今年年底，
- there'll be nearly a billion people on this planet
- 这个星球上将有接近十亿人口
- that actively use social networking sites.
- 在很活跃地使用社交网站。
- The one thing that all of them have in common
- 他们有一个共同点，
- is that they're going to die.
- 就是他们终将死去。
- While that might be a somewhat morbid thought,
- 也许这是个有点病态的想法，
- I think it has some really profound implications
- 但是我认为它有一些深远的意义
- that are worth exploring.
- 值得探究。
- What first got me thinking about this
- 第一次让我思考这个问题，
- was a blog post authored earlier this year by Derek K. Miller,
- 是今年早些时期，戴瑞克·米勒发布的一个博客。
- who was a science and technology journalist
- 他曾是一名科学和科技记者，
- who died of cancer.
- 死于癌症。
- And what Miller did was have his family and friends write a post
- 米勒让他的家人和朋友
- that went out shortly after he died.
- 在他去世不久后写一个通知。
- Here's what he wrote in starting that out.
- 这是他最初写的。
- He said, "Here it is. I'm dead,
- 他说，“这个时刻还是到了。我已经死了，
- and this is my last post to my blog.
- 这是我在博客上的最后一条信息
- In advance, I asked that once my body finally shut down
- 在此之前，我已恳请我的家人和朋友，
- from the punishments of my cancer,
- 一旦我的身体因为癌症的折磨而停止运转，
- then my family and friends publish this prepared message I wrote --
- 他们将发布这条我事先写好的信息－－
- the first part of the process
- 这是把
- of turning this from an active website to an archive."
- 一个活跃的网站转变成一种档案的第一部分。”
- Now, while as a journalist,
- 现在，作为一名记者，
- Miller's archive may have been better written
- 米勒的档案或许可以比其他人更好地被记录，
- and more carefully curated than most,
- 更好地被展示，
- the fact of the matter is that all of us today
- 事情的真相是今天我们所有的人
- are creating an archive
- 都在创造一种档案，
- that's something completely different
- 一种完全不同于
- than anything that's been created
- 任何被前辈们
- by any previous generation.
- 创造出的事物。
- Consider a few stats for a moment.
- 请大家来看看这些数据。
- Right now there are 48 hours of video
- 此时此刻，每分钟有48个小时的视频
- being uploaded to YouTube every single minute.
- 正在被上传到Youtube上。
- There are 200 million Tweets being posted every day.
- 每天，有2亿条的微博被发布。
- And the average Facebook user
- 平均每个脸书用户每月
- is creating 90 pieces of content each month.
- 产生90条的内容。
- So when you think about your parents or your grandparents,
- 所以，当你回想你的父母或曾父母们时，
- at best they may have created
- 他们至多制作了
- some photos or home videos,
- 一些照片或家庭视频，
- or a diary that lives in a box somewhere.
- 或者一本躺在某处箱子里的日记。
- But today we're all creating this incredibly rich digital archive
- 但是今天，我们正在创造这个丰富到不可思议的数码档案，
- that's going to live in the cloud indefinitely,
- 甚至在我们离开世界的若干年之后，
- years after we're gone.
- 它们仍然可以在世界上永恒地存在。
- And I think that's going to create some incredibly intriguing opportunities
- 我想，那将为技术专家创造很多有趣到难以置信的
- for technologists.
- 机会。
- Now to be clear, I'm a journalist and not a technologist,
- 我先声明，我是一个记者，而不是技术专家，
- so what I'd like to do briefly
- 所以我主要想做的是
- is paint a picture
- 描绘一幅画面，
- of what the present and the future are going to look like.
- 一幅关于现在和未来将会怎样的画面。
- Now we're already seeing some services
- 目前，我们已经看到一些服务，
- that are designed to let us decide
- 它们被设定好以让我们决定
- what happens to our online profile and our social media accounts
- 我们网上的个人主页和社交媒体的账户
- after we die.
- 在我们去世之后会发生什么。
- One of them actually, fittingly enough,
- 事实上，它们中的一个，很合时宜地，
- found me when I checked into a deli
- 当我在纽约四方区的
- at a restaurant in New York
- 一家餐馆买熟食的时候
- on foursquare.
- 发现了我。
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