but you are the great-great-grand, and it's your decendants who will get the email from you -- in a hundred years or so.

do multimedia even. set em up with some video of you, maybe you could sing a song ... the whole nine yards.

now would that be cool or what?

apparently, its coming. And Microsquash will own it all.

Quote :

" E-mail from the grave? Microsoft seeks patent on 'immortal computing' In this culture of instant information, some Microsoft Corp. researchers are pursuing a radical notion -- the concept of saving messages for delivery in decades, centuries or more. The project, dubbed "immortal computing," would let people store digital information in physical artifacts and other forms to be preserved and revealed to future generations, and maybe even to future civilizations. After all, when looking that far in the future, you never know who the end users might be. "It is definitely a long-term project," said Andy Wilson, the Microsoft researcher whose musings on the ephemeral nature of digital information inspired the research initiative. One scenario the researchers envision: People could store messages to descendants, information about their lives or interactive holograms of themselves for access by visitors at their tombstones or urns. And here's where the notion of immortality really kicks in: The researchers say the artifacts could be symbolic representations of people, reflecting elements of their personalities. The systems might be set up to take action -- e-mailing birthday greetings to people identified as grandchildren, for example. ... full article at http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/300636_msftimmortal22.html "

[Edited on January 22, 2007 at 11:32 PM. Reason : ]

1/22/2007 11:29:48 PM

luckily, I don't have any "decendants"

1/22/2007 11:37:49 PM

shit ive been found out.

im actually a bad speller.

1/22/2007 11:41:58 PM

it would be ridiculously creepy to get a happy birthday email from a long-deceased relative.

1/22/2007 11:43:20 PM

Quote :

"it would be ridiculously creepy to get a happy birthday email from a long-deceased relative. "

no way, it'd be cool. think about it:

imagine you're a little kid in the year 2110. You get an email with a video of some 40-year old guy you'ves never known, singing

"Happy Birthday To You
Happy Birthday Dear Great-Great-Grandson"

"How's great-great-grandpappy's favorite little kiddo? I hope you like the Playstation game I'm sending you. It's your great-great uncle's favorite"

(*camera pans to a lanky, zitfaced teenager*)

"sup, yo."

(*camera pans back*)

"Now say hi to your Grandmother... here she is..."

(*holds up an 18month old infant*)

"waaah"

..............


that'd be freakin awesome.






[Edited on January 22, 2007 at 11:58 PM. Reason : ]

1/22/2007 11:51:58 PM

this is actually really cool.

1/23/2007 12:28:11 AM

I'll be dead so what will I care?

1/23/2007 12:59:43 AM

hmm...

i didnt think of that.

1/23/2007 1:01:11 AM

I thought this was gonna be about bad email forwards from our grandparents, such as:

http://snopes.com/politics/obama/muslim.asp

1/23/2007 1:15:04 AM

But what if your great grand-child goes back in time and cancels your e-mail account?

1/23/2007 1:17:46 AM

this is a great business model. I mean, you don't even have to deliver the message or something. cause who is gonna know?

1/23/2007 11:26:27 PM

^Yeah, I was thinking this is a great way to make money for practically nothing.

1/24/2007 12:19:24 AM

we needed another thread on this

thanks

1/24/2007 10:31:37 AM