Necrotechnology
The use of technology to manage, mediate, exploit, simulate, or extend the presence of death and the dead in contemporary life.
A term describing the growing intersection of technology, mortality, and digital existence — from AI-generated versions of deceased people and digital memorials to death surveillance, automated warfare, and the infrastructures that turn human loss into data, content, or value.
In simpler terms: When technology gets involved with death — whether to remember it, monetise it, control it, or make it strangely difficult to let go.
Part Black Mirror, part memorial service, part Silicon Valley startup. Because apparently, even death isn't offline anymore.
A term describing the growing intersection of technology, mortality, and digital existence — from AI-generated versions of deceased people and digital memorials to death surveillance, automated warfare, and the infrastructures that turn human loss into data, content, or value.
In simpler terms: When technology gets involved with death — whether to remember it, monetise it, control it, or make it strangely difficult to let go.
Part Black Mirror, part memorial service, part Silicon Valley startup. Because apparently, even death isn't offline anymore.
I asked an AI chatbot to recreate my dead grandmother’s voice, and now my family is having conversations with her again. This is some next-level necrotechnology.
Necrotechnology by Araucaria Angustifolia November 11, 2026
