Who wants to be online forever?
For better or for worse, people like me, are having the sad privilege of witnessing the death of their idols and their consecration as the myths of the computer science, our beloved discipline. Dijkstra’s disappearance in 2002 was my first felt loss.
People like me, people like you, will experience an event even more sad: the mourning of a friend never met physically represented as an indefinitely offline status.
Have you ever thought about you at 80yo online? How like will be your contact list? A sort of little cemetery just a few clicks away from you. The deluded hope that sooner or later some bulb will switch on and start greening back again.
Can be an «inactive account» of a disappeared beloved discontinued by his/her provider? Would it sound like a desecration of a grave?
Did facebook faced this event? and Google+?
And you?
Paraphrasing Freddy: «Who wants lo be online for ever?»
