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Note to Self

Messages From the Beyond

Note to Self

WNYC Studios

Self-improvement, Tech, Note, Npr, Education, Public, Wnyc, Manoush, York, To, New, Self, Radio, Business, Technology, Relationships, City, Society & Culture, Zomorodi, Newtechcity

4.72.7K Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2016

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Ginger Johnson is battling cancer. She has three children and wants to stay in their lives after she's gone. So she's using a service called Safe Beyond that helps her make messages and then schedule them for delivery in the future. But her kids aren't sure they want them.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

You guys know that Silicon Valley really wants to solve the ultimate problem that we all have.

0:06.4

Death.

0:07.4

We're not seeking to replace the fact that death is final, but the fact that you can no longer exist,

0:14.6

you know, in the physical world doesn't mean that you can no longer exist spiritually in the virtual world.

0:22.4

That was more on Zerr, the founder of a service called Safe Beyond.

0:27.0

That service lets you leave messages for your loved ones,

0:30.2

but the videos and emails that you record and write won't be delivered to your friends and family until you are long gone.

0:39.2

It's like a message from the grave.

0:42.2

I mean, is this the craziest or the best present you could ever give to someone you love?

0:50.6

It's note to self, the tech show about being human.

0:55.6

I'm a new summer Odie and with me in the studio is the executive producer of this show, Jen Point.

1:01.6

Hello, minutia.

1:02.6

Hello, Jen and Jen, we were kind of joking that actually your other titles should be death correspondent.

1:08.4

Ah, yes.

1:09.4

I think that's because of the last show I ended up in about a month ago.

1:12.4

That was about transhumanists.

1:14.0

Those people that believe that tech can help them live forever.

1:17.6

Yes.

1:18.6

It was a great show.

1:19.8

Listeners, if you haven't listened to it, do go back because you will not stop thinking about it,

1:24.8

but you've got something different today.

1:26.8

Yeah, today my story is about people who have no expectation of living forever,

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