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What goals will humanity pursue with technology? One possible answer is longevity. Imagine the average human life span increasing by a few decades. What if this happened in one go for all of humanity? What if it happened for a privileged few only? How would the advent of longevity impact societal values? To grasp the implications of such a substantial event on remembering and forgetting, I outline a “scenery” of future values in front of which related legislation may occur.
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Salvati, D. (2018). 10 Longevity: Remembering and Forgetting Personal Memories. In: Remembering and Forgetting in the Digital Age. Law, Governance and Technology Series, vol 38. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90230-2_17
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