Can you become 'virtually immortal'? A Silicon Valley start-up thinks so Dave Schilling

That is one of the slogans found on the hauntingly cheerful website for Eternime – a startup firm aiming to let you store your memories and your personality in digital form past your physical expiration date (also known as death). They hope to feed the data into chatbots that will allow us to "speak to the dead". This is illustrated through a shoddy photoshop of a bearded man's head floating inside a laptop. Enjoy having a chat with that, if you can. The website goes on to describe the service as "a library that has people instead of books", which truly does add new meaning to the phrase "I'm checking you out", doesn't it?