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Proposal: Advance Directives for our digital legacies

Ten years from now, which is most likely to still be around, your last email or this one by some ancient Assyrian businessman?

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Photo by mharrsch / CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

One thing I can tell you is that when the photographer who took this image  stops paying for their Flickr account, this photo is likely to disappear, and all sites that hotlinked to it using Flickr’s “embed” feature, will lose the use of it. 

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