{"id":3069,"date":"2011-05-31T17:39:52","date_gmt":"2011-05-31T21:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/?p=3069"},"modified":"2011-05-31T17:41:26","modified_gmt":"2011-05-31T21:41:26","slug":"augmenting-the-cemetery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/2011\/05\/31\/augmenting-the-cemetery\/","title":{"rendered":"Augmenting the Cemetery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span class=\"vvqbox vvqyoutube\" style=\"width:425px;height:344px;\"><span id=\"vvq-3069-youtube-1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yd2_FG06vnI\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/yd2_FG06vnI\/0.jpg\" alt=\"YouTube Preview Image\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>A company called Quiring Monuments has recently begun marketing augmented tombstones that are designed to assist smartphone-carrying visitors in accessing digital information about the deceased.\u00a0 On these tombstones, qr codes are given the kind of prominence once exclusively reserved for a person&#8217;s name, dates, and epitaph.\u00a0 The qr codes link users to individualized sites that contain information about the person being memorialized.\u00a0 This means that part of the memorializing process now includes constructing an enduring Web presence for the deceased.<\/p>\n<p>This raises a few questions.\u00a0 How important to the memorializing process is being in the physical presence of a the body?\u00a0 Will crystallized bits of memory in cyberspace deepen, or even eclipse, the memorial experience found in physical graveyards?\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/help\/contact.php?show_form=deceased\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> has already adopted a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/help\/contact.php?show_form=deceased\" target=\"_blank\">policy for memorializing accounts<\/a> (also discussed in the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/blog.php?post=163091042130\" target=\"_blank\"> official blog<\/a>).\u00a0 Are graveyards becoming redundant?<\/p>\n<p>For more, see Bellamy Pailthorp&#8217;s NPR story, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2011\/05\/30\/136676964\/technology-brings-digital-memories-to-grave-sites\">Technology Brings Digital Memories To Grave Sites<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A company called Quiring Monuments has recently begun marketing augmented tombstones that are designed to assist smartphone-carrying visitors in accessing digital information about the deceased.\u00a0 On these tombstones, qr codes are given the kind of prominence once exclusively reserved for a person&#8217;s name, dates, and epitaph.\u00a0 The qr codes link users to individualized sites that 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