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Design Fiction
Digital Ash
Overview :
Over the past decade a new global economy has emerged, around cryptocurrencies and decentralized financing. At the same time the Metaverse has begun to take shape. various companies are jumping on board and are ready to extract more data from you.
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We have created a fictional scenario which exists 50 years into the future and have tried to articulate our thoughts through an installation.
The Story
We have created a fictional future, where metaverse has completely taken over and has billions and billions of users all over the world.
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The people have surrendered to total data surveillance by the metaverse. All their memories, activities, experiences, visuals, everything is recorded and stored in the servers.
When a person happens to die in real life, their stored data is given to whomsoever they’ve left it to, in their wills.
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But, as a result of this, a fictional crypto “deathcoin” is created in the black market obtained from selling dead people’s memories or ‘digital ash’ obtained from their digital footprint, (metaverse avatars).
The Installation
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1. The funerary urn
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It symbolizes the memories collected as ash. Which is sold in the black market for obtaining 'deathcoin’.
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2. The Will of Mr. Jai Desai
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In which it is stated that he bequeaths his digital ashes to his wife after his death, which includes the recordings of his memories and consciousness which he gave the permission to the metaverse to record while signing up.
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3. Deathcoin
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The coins fuming out of the urn represents Jai Desai's memories through emoticons. The emoticons transition into deathcoin.
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4. The News
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The newspaper of a day in the future, with headlines highlighting data extraction and a woman who died and her avatar spent the rest of her life digitally. It also highlights the rise of 'deathcoin'.
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5. The Poster
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Everything you see Everything you see
Can be measured, weighed, or gauged
Just like the ones who will keep you company
All of the things that you'll ever be
All of the things that you'll ever be
- "Everything You See (Kids Count Hallelujahs)"
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