Personally I think this is interesting, ethics be damned. It is obvious the direction we are going with these kind of technologies. We will be able to create entirely new content using the personalities of deceased people out of whole cloth.
Some day we may be reduced to nothing more than a pile of ashes and a USB stick with our personality reincarnated into it. That's far better than simply being a pile of ashes, and may be the closest we get to some kind of immortality, a way to keep our ego wandering the digital world long after we've died and gone to wherever you choose to believe.
Combined with advanced AR technology, all it may take is putting on some glasses to see the ghosts of your ancestors wandering the real world and interacting with it. Well, maybe not our ancestors. We will be the ancestors, and our descendants will be the ones watching us, tending to our digital souls.
Some day we may be reduced to nothing more than a pile of ashes and a USB stick with our personality reincarnated into it. That's far better than simply being a pile of ashes, and may be the closest we get to some kind of immortality, a way to keep our ego wandering the digital world long after we've died and gone to wherever you choose to believe.
Combined with advanced AR technology, all it may take is putting on some glasses to see the ghosts of your ancestors wandering the real world and interacting with it. Well, maybe not our ancestors. We will be the ancestors, and our descendants will be the ones watching us, tending to our digital souls.