EULAs for the afterlife

Tom Scott's Welcome to Life is a clever and chilling short film about the EULA you will be asked to click through when you die. It paints a picture of an afterlife run on the kinds of shitty, non-negotiable terms as today's social media sites.

If you liked this, you may also enjoy two novels that provided inspiration for it: Jim Monroe's Everyone in Silico, where I first found the idea of a corporate-sponsored afterlife; Rudy Rucker's trippy Postsingular, which introduced me to the horrifying idea of consciousness slums.

Welcome to Life: a science fiction story about what you see when you die.

I write books. My latest is a YA science fiction novel called Homeland (it's the sequel to Little Brother). More books: Rapture of the Nerds (a novel, with Charlie Stross); With a Little Help (short stories); and The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow (novella and nonfic). I speak all over the place and I tweet and tumble, too.

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Do hackers & pirates all go to hell where they run a cracked warez version of lyfe?
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This reminds me of Iain M Banks novel Feersum Endjinn where they get, I think 7 new lives in a new body and 11 virtual lives.
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…and that’s why I use Linux.
Andrew Singleton

Kinda hard to think of anything to say. I mean i should feel something here but Disney copyrighted that emotion so they deleted it when my credit check failed last month.
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What a magnificent manoeuver.

We need more of this brilliant stuff that so ably illustrates what an impoverished shit-hole these arsehole megacorps are only too happy to make of reality.
http://twitter.com/WorldWithout_Me WorldWithoutMe.com

Wonderful Twist by Tom Scott!

We are probably the first generation living our lives online and the first generation that has to Plan Digital Afterlife!