Technology, Information, and Society

In the summer, I read this piece in The Atlantic by Ian Bogost, titled, "A Computer Wrote My Mother’s Obituary." It would be fair to say that the article broke me in some way. In the article Bogost writes about the funeral services company that he was liaising with to organize his mother's funeral offered to him an obituary writing AI service. That's right! An AI Obituary writer is a software service that exists in the world, it is not speculative dystopian fiction. There's a software company out there that provides this service and charges customers for it. Reading up about this software company, Passare, got me thinking,

And this got me extrapolating how there are going to be best man speeches written by AI (or grooms or father of the brides for that matter) that will be delivered at weddings, (I checked, they do exist). In all honesty it must have happened already! What does it say about the state of

Growth, Investing in Startups and MORE!" what does that say about these cultural practices? Why give a toast, a eulogy, or write an obituary? A spec-fic piece, built around this premise is something I have been considering!