Augmented Eternity and Swappable Identities

Augmented Eternity and Swappable IdentitiesHave you ever wondered what would a friend do if she was in your decision-making situation? Or thought about where a family member might go if he was visiting a travel destination with you? In many of these cases, the person may not be there with you, so you can only guess what they would do. But you may now be able to securely "borrow their Identity" and ask a question with the confidence of receiving a relevant and valuable answer.

Can software agents become our digital heirs? Can a head of state, a scientist, or a business owner complement succession planning by leveraging machine intelligence? What if you could select the digital identity of a deceased person from a social network and activate it as a pluggable ontology into your iPhone’s Siri and ask a question?

Our digital identity has become so rich and intrinsic that without it, many of us may be considered half humans. The number of sensors we carry daily and the digital footprints we leave behind have given us enough granular patterns and data clusters that we can now use them for prediction and reasoning on behalf of an individual. We believe that by enabling our digital identity to perpetuate, we can significantly contribute to global expertise and enable a new form of an intergenerational collective intelligence.