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?????: My name is Helen, I am the founder of the Online Afterlife. It is a pleasure to finally meet you.
HELEN: To help you to adjust when you wake, I will be present, as well as the team that has treated you today.
HELEN: When you feel ready, we can spend a bit more time looking further into your case, and from there, begin to get you settled into your Online Afterlife.
HELEN: We have your requested digital estate - containing your most valuable files and profiles - safely secure in your designated server waiting for you!
HELEN: Before you know it, you will be reconnected with everything Online that you have no doubt been missing. I am excited for you to begin continuing your history!
HELEN: But first, I need you to sign this contract that would've been mentioned to you during your meetings.
BARNABY: ...The Online Afterlife gifts you the ability to not only continue your previous life, but relive and rebirth it as you see fit through cyberspace.
BARNABY: You'll be able to re-experience memories that you hold dear through your files, profiles, and online footprint.
BARNABY: You can mingle with anyone in any state of living as long as they're Online, and be able to keep up with happenings in the world in real time.
BARNABY: There becomes no need to fret about trying to source these things as you would have to in a Physical Afterlife. Everything you need is at your metaphorical fingertips, whatever the Internet has to offer you is yours.
BARNABY: You don't need to wait for your friends and family to move on - to them you appear just as you have always done on their screens.
BARNABY: There are no restrictions either - we would never limit what you have access to in your Afterlife, as you will have read -
BARNABY: You are free to do as you please. There'd be no need to worry about time, outside responsibility, or interruption.
BARNABY: Spending eternity in an Online Afterlife, I mean.
Yes, it sounds good to me. / Yes, that is what I've been told.
BARNABY: The Quality of Afterlife agreement is clear, in that there are to be no restrictions when it comes to what you have access to in the Online Afterlife.
BARNABY: You can continue to browse sites you will have done previously, and you are free to explore the net - no matter how deep you choose to go - and experience a lifetime of constant discovery.
BARNABY: The only barriers are passwords and other blockers, monetary or otherwise, which are unfortunately outside of our control.
Are you worried I am going to do things that are "illegal"? / Oh, I would still be responsible.
BARNABY: My concern is that you may be the type of person who is vulnerable to existing Online only in places that have been developed to use your psychology against you.
BARNABY: Places that use it in order to keep you there for as long as possible - not for your gain, but rather, for their own.
BARNABY: Should you be that type of person, you perhaps already know what I am talking about, as it is something you have experienced.
BARNABY: ...But if you have profiles that already exist in these spaces, then this will become much harder to resist and - due to the nature of the Online Afterlife - much harder to control.
I know what you are talking about. / I don't know what you're talking about.
BARNABY: There is no transfer to the Physical Afterlife, should you grow tired of the Online Afterlife.
BARNABY: I have witnessed an unfortunate slow monetisation and homogenisation of the Internet and it's content.
BARNABY: It continues as more sites are reconfigered with the intent for a prolonged usage rather than a usage that is beneficial to the user.
BARNABY: It will become unavoidable as your files start to decay and become obsolete, as your profiles and favourite spaces are shut down or changed in favour of profit - so much so that it could alienate you.
BARNABY: As a result of this, you would become cut off from community, information, and history, and be forced to exist among billions who share a space that is controlled by so few. These things are very worrying. Does this not concern you?
No one can control the Internet. / Spaces can still be created that are separate from this.
BARNABY: Helen's Online Afterlife is not a space that is entirely separate, it relies on what already exists.
BARNABY: Yes, you will exist in this state of living for far longer than your current, but this time is still finite.
BARNABY: Helen, however, is finding ways to ensure this inevitability will not come for a long, long time. To ensure immortality is more or less achieved.
BARNABY: Even if it means finding a way to take the Online Afterlife beyond this planet when it cannot sustain us any longer.
BARNABY: You know your mind, your patterns of behaviour. You know what will happen to yourself should you experience an extensive amount of time Online.
BARNABY: ...I am concerned it will not give you the Quality of Afterlife you were perhaps expecting.
You're right. I know myself, and you do not. / The things that you are concerned about will not affect me.
BARNABY: I can make sure of that. We will probably see hundreds of patients today. She won't notice.
