ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Adam Ostrow - Journalist
As editor in chief at Mashable, Adam Ostrow covers the tech, trends and people driving the evolution of the Web.

Why you should listen

Adam Ostrow is a new media entrepreneur and commentator. As editor in chief at Mashable, he is responsible for the editorial management and direction of one of the most widely read independent news sites in the world, covering the latest technologies, trends, and individuals driving the current evolution of the Web.

Since joining Mashable in 2007, Ostrow has contributed more than 2,500 articles, and under his leadership the site’s audience has grown more than tenfold to 13 million unique visitors per month, with more than 3.6 million followers across social media sites as of June 2011.

Ostrow has been frequently quoted by numerous mainstream media outlets including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, USA Today and The Times of London among others. He is a frequent guest on CNN, Bloomberg and NPR.

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TEDGlobal 2011

Adam Ostrow: After your final status update

Adam Ostrow: Po zadnji posodobitvi statusa

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Mnogi med nami smo prisotni v socialnih medijih. Svojo virtualno osebnost ustvarjamo s posodobitvami statusa, tweeti in povezavami, shranjenimi v računalniškem oblaku. Adam Ostrow postavlja pomembno vprašanje: Kaj se zgodi s to osebo, ko umremo? Lahko ... živi naprej?
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that are worthvredno exploringraziskovati.
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What first got me thinkingrazmišljanje about this
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who diedumrl of cancerrak.
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ki je umrl zaradi raka.
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that wentšla out shortlykmalu after he diedumrl.
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da objavijo moje vnaprej pripravljeno sporočilo,
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then my familydružina and friendsprijatelji publishobjaviti this preparedpripravljen messagesporočilo I wrotenapisal --
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ko moje telo podleže posledicam raka.
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spreminjanja te aktivne spletne strani v arhiv."
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and more carefullyskrbno curatedkustosinja than mostnajbolj,
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in bolj skrbno organiziran od večine,
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vsi ustvarjamo arhiv,
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that's something completelypopolnoma differentdrugačen
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than anything that's been createdustvarjeno
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So when you think about your parentsstarši or your grandparentsstari starši,
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yearslet after we're goneizginil.
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še leta po naši smrti.
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za tehnologe.
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Now to be clearjasno, I'm a journalistnovinarka and not a technologisttehnolog,
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that are designedzasnovan to let us decideodloči
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what happensse zgodi to our onlinena spletu profileprofil and our socialsocialno mediamediji accountsračunov
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kaj se bo zgodilo z našim spletnim profilom in uporabniškim računom
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after we dieumreti.
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Malce grozljivo, kajne?
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So what that servicestoritev does, quitečisto simplypreprosto,
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is let you createustvarite a messagesporočilo or a videovideo
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that can be postedObjavljeno to FacebookFacebook after you dieumreti.
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ki ga objavijo na Facebooku po naši smrti.
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se imenuje 1.000 spominov.
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that they can postpost after you dieumreti.
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ki ga objavijo po naši smrti.
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But what I think comesprihaja nextNaslednji is fardaleč more interestingzanimivo.
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A menim, da je to, kar prihaja, še mnogo bolj zanimivo.
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who, back in MarchMarca,
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demonstrateddokazano how he was ablesposoben to analyzeanalizirati more than 90,000 hoursure of home videovideo.
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it's going to becomepostane possiblemogoče
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to analyzeanalizirati an entirecelotno life'sživljenje worthvredno of contentvsebino --
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analizirati vse, kar smo ustvarili v življenju -
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the TweetsTweets, the photosfotografije, the videosvideo posnetke, the blogblog postsdelovnih mest --
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that we're producingproizvajajo in suchtako massiveogromno numbersštevilke.
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ki jih ustvarjamo v tako velikem številu.
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And I think as that happensse zgodi,
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it's going to becomepostane possiblemogoče for our digitaldigitalni personasPersone
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bodo lahko naše digitalne osebnosti
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to continuenadaljuj to interactinterakcijo in the realresnično worldsvet long after we're goneizginil
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obstajale v resničnem svetu, ko nas več ne bo,
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thankshvala to the vastnessprostranstvih of the amountznesek of contentvsebino we're creatingustvarjanje
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zahvaljujoč ogromnim količinam vsebin, ki jih ustvarjamo,
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and technology'stehnologija abilitysposobnost to make sensesmisel of it all.
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in zmožnosti tehnologije, da jih razume.
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Now we're alreadyže startingzačetek to see some experimentsposkuse here.
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Že vidimo nekatere poskuse v tej smeri.
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One servicestoritev calledpozval My NextNaslednji TweetCvrkutati
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analyzesanalize your entirecelotno TwitterCvrkutati streamtok, everything you've postedObjavljeno ontona TwitterCvrkutati,
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analizira naš celotni tok tweetov - vse kar objavimo na Twitterju -
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to make some predictionsnapovedi as to what you mightmorda say nextNaslednji.
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in poskuša predvideti našo naslednjo izjavo.
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Well right now, as you can see,
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the resultsrezultate can be somewhatnekoliko comicalkomična.
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rezultati nekoliko smešni.
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You can imaginezamislite what something like this mightmorda look like
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Lahko si predstavljate, kako bo to videti
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fivepet, 10 or 20 yearslet from now
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čez pet, deset ali dvajset let,
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as our technicaltehnično capabilitieszmogljivosti improveizboljšati.
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ko se bodo naše tehnološke zmožnosti izboljšale.
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TakingPri tem it a stepkorak furthernadalje,
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MIT'sMIT mediamediji lablaboratorij is workingdelo on robotsroboti
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MIT-ov medijski laboratorij razvija robote,
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that can interactinterakcijo more like humansljudje.
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ki se obnašajo podobno kot ljudje.
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But what if those robotsroboti were ablesposoben to interactinterakcijo
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Kaj če bi se ti roboti znali obnašati
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basedtemelji on the uniqueedinstven characteristicsznačilnosti of a specificspecifično personoseba
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kot posameznik - na podlagi njegovih edinstvenih značilnosti,
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na podlagi stotisočih objav,
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that personoseba producesproizvaja in theirnjihovi lifetimeživljenska doba?
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ki jih ta oseba ustvari v življenju?
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where CNNCNN beamedbeamed a livev živo hologramhologram
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ko je CNN v živo projicirala hologram
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of hipkolk hophop artistumetnik will.i.am into theirnjihovi studiostudio
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hip hop umetnika will.i.am-a v svoj studio
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for an interviewintervju with AndersonAnderson CooperCooper.
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What if we were ablesposoben to use that sameenako typetip of technologytehnologijo
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to beamžarek a representationzastopanje of our lovedLjubil sem onestiste into our livingživeti roomssobe --
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da bi v dnevne sobe projicirali slike naših ljubljenih,
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interactinginteraktivno in a very lifelikeVeren way
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ki bi se obnašali, kot da so živi -
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basedtemelji on all the contentvsebino they createdustvarjeno while they were aliveživ?
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I think that's going to becomepostane completelypopolnoma possiblemogoče
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as the amountznesek of datapodatkov we're producingproizvajajo
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ko se količina podatkov, ki jih uporabljamo,
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and technology'stehnologija abilitysposobnost to understandrazumeti it
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bothoboje expandrazširiti exponentiallyeksponentno.
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Now in closingzapiranje, I think what we all need to be thinkingrazmišljanje about
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is if we want that to becomepostane our realityrealnost --
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ali želimo, da to postane naša resničnost -
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and if so,
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in če je odgovor da,
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what it meanssredstva for a definitionopredelitev of life and everything that comesprihaja after it.
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kaj to pomeni za definicijo življenja in vsega, kar pride za njim.
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Thank you very much.
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Najlepša hvala.
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(Aplavz)
Translated by Snežana Stone
Reviewed by Tilen Pigac - EFZG

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ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Adam Ostrow - Journalist
As editor in chief at Mashable, Adam Ostrow covers the tech, trends and people driving the evolution of the Web.

Why you should listen

Adam Ostrow is a new media entrepreneur and commentator. As editor in chief at Mashable, he is responsible for the editorial management and direction of one of the most widely read independent news sites in the world, covering the latest technologies, trends, and individuals driving the current evolution of the Web.

Since joining Mashable in 2007, Ostrow has contributed more than 2,500 articles, and under his leadership the site’s audience has grown more than tenfold to 13 million unique visitors per month, with more than 3.6 million followers across social media sites as of June 2011.

Ostrow has been frequently quoted by numerous mainstream media outlets including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, USA Today and The Times of London among others. He is a frequent guest on CNN, Bloomberg and NPR.

More profile about the speaker
Adam Ostrow | Speaker | TED.com