30 years in the future. My great-grandchildren might be able to sit down and have a conversation

with me that's based upon all the tweets and emails that I had written, my opinion on current events, my mannerisms.

New services are popping up to let you decide the fate of your digital afterlife. From WNYC in New York,

this is on the media. I'm Brooke Gladstone. And I'm Bob Garfield.

What's in the name? Turns out when it comes to the issue of climate change, a whole lot.

What we found is that the terms really do seem to still elicit very different kinds of reactions.

The term global warming led to greater certainty that the phenomenon is happening, including a sense of personal threat.

And the media moment that created our false memory of Tom Cruise losing it on the Oprah Winfrey show.

He doesn't jump on the couch.

He gets up and sort of leap on to stand on it, but he never bounces on it like a trampoline.

All that and more after this.

From WNYC in New York, this is On the Media.

I'm Bob Garfield.

And I'm Brooke Ladstone.

When his revelations first appeared early last June in London's

Guardian in the Washington Post, he was like an unidentified flying object that suddenly appeared on

our radar screen, flying very close and low. The biggest news out of Washington today is this. Big Brother

is watching you.

The Guardian newspaper reported the NSA has been collecting phone records from millions of Verizon customers under a secret court order.

An unknown source leaked the information to columnist Glenn Greenwald.

And when finally he was identified a few days later in The Guardian, it seemed to generate only more confusion.

The question here all day has been, who is Edward Snowden?

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