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.