早稲田政経2012 II
単語は こちら フレーズは こちら [1] How often do you wish you could speak to someone who has died? How many questions would you like to ask your departed loved ones? Thanks to new technology, the opportunity to do so is not far off. [2] Huge chunks of our lives are, of course, already recorded on the Web – not only in the emails and the documents we write, but in our photographs and videos, which we share on sites like Facebook, Flickr, and YouTube. Companies such as Microsoft, Google, and Vodafone offer free storage space in return for our life data: accessing our memories, tastes, and records. But what happens to all this when we die? [3] A European Commission-sponsored project called "Companions" created a trial computer program called "Senior Companion": a conversational "agent"―or software program―designed to interact with a person for a long period, learning his or her tastes and habits. For the moment, this might best be suited to elderly people, livin...