Aug 9 2011: I'm conming in late but I've been thinking about related questions for a while. On the one end of the spectrum digital cemeteries and memorial sites that can be tended by family and friends, on the other agents that "learn" or "become" a person by processing their online behavior (possibly many years of it.) Key for the latter, though, is ownship of the agent. I don't like the idea of bots roaming the social networks "learning" people without their knowledge and then "being" them in contexts that the real person is unaware of. This goes for both living people and dead people. On the other hand the combination of the two ideas could be pretty potent.
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