(The New Yorker) – You can now make a virtual replica of a loved one. The question is what it can give you in return. Gaia Alari, a thirty-six-year-old artist, lives in Bergamo, Italy. In the past few years, her father, Gabriele, a seventy-seven-year-old doctor, has grown frail with age. Faced with her father’s mortality, Gaia started searching for a way to make losing him less painful. Then Gaia learned about the booming digital-afterlife indus…
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