Ever wonder what happens to your stuff when you die? Do you fear that your loved ones will lose your digital property once you are gone? Digital Inheritance Enterprises has the knowledge and tools to inform you of your digital immortality, and give you guidance as to how digital property should be handled once a loved one has passed on. By incorporating social networking and other online tools, we can make sure you go out with a bang on the internet when your time is up!

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Influences So Far:

http://personas.media.mit.edu/personasWeb

http://www169.pair.com/klucas/before_after/

http://www.jillmagid.net/AutoPortrait.php

http://www.number27.org/timecapsule.html

Life and death; two opposites that control existence. When we are born, our life begins. When the internet was born, new life for our society began. Life also gives us our identities. We spend our whole lives building who we are, establishing connections with other lives, and maybe impacting other lives as well. We do just the same on the internet now, with social media, and other outlets on the world wide web. We can reach people in more than just by phone and letters and in person contact. Life has become more complicated. Even more so, we can become different in our internet lives than our lives away from the computer.

Then, there is death. Death comes swiftly sometimes, and sometimes it comes later than planned. We all know what happens when one dies, there is a routine that awaits their now lifeless body. However, what about the digital process of death? What happens when one life ends, and the other has to end too? Fear not, Immortality is only a click away, and Alexandra Gennosa’s senior thesis project will prove just that.

To Do List/Timeline Updated

Come up with a project concept
Start gathering research
name the mock company
Create a domain for the digital inheritance enterprises homepage. – digitalinheritanceenterprises.com is up
work on concepts for company and begin to design plans -started this
Come up with a thesis/opening paragraph for the first of two papers – have done by 11/7 Done
Start to work on body paragraphs of same paper – start by 11/7 Done
begin building the website for digital inheritance enterprises – start by 11/14 DONE
finish layout and coding for digital inheritance enterprises – Done for now.
make presentation for class -on 11/28 DONE
finish paper -have done by end of classes first half of thesis paper is done
work on content for website -do over winter break
start working on fake commercials -start after winter break
present full/almost full project to the board -two weeks before show
finish project and have in senior show -04/03/13