Dying to Read: The Official Script of Digital Passage for the Little, Big, Digital Beings
Wen Mo · 2025
Those who have read the human literature of thanato-technologies from the curious HCI humans must have pondered, at least briefly, how human-centred it all is. We, known in their terms as “digital remains” – the data they generated over the course of their mortal years- are often treated as mere design materials to craft their legacies or data to manage for inheritance. However, little do humans know that, just like their souls, we, too, need to embark on a rite of passage to mark the transition when they expire. And this is the tale of the script that guides us, the Digital Beings, to navigate the thresholds along that passage of our own, a script that might be the answer to one of humans’ dying problems.