Long before you go to heaven, your data have gone to the cloud. Then what?

Google reads this humble page everyday - possibly every hour or even more frequently - and, more importantly, holds the articles I write and publish here. Most of these writings, as you readers also know, involve research, analysis, investigation. Some are literary pieces (poetry, etc.) All of them are (at least so far), found only on this digital page.  

One day this blog will become a 'digital corpus' without a servant to update it. Then what?
   

Once you have heirs, your death is prone to lead to a long and complicated battle. No matter how much you plan and try to avoid the conflict, your measures won't simply be enough. 

We keep ignoring Jesus' words

 (all of his teachings, actually) that

exort us to only store

 treasures in our heart. The cloud loaded

 with our memories, thoughts, wisdom (if any)

 will  not rust, but that may be exactly

 the problem ahead, as we insist on

 despising the heart as the right,

 valuable life storage and 

feed the cloud as if that 

meant real eternity.

What I must regret is that, as observation has already instructed me, once I do not 'feed' this for some time, no one is going to 'find' it - Google is to 'hide' it in the piles the system judges as not worth searching. This seems particularly true regarding blogspot pages, Google certainly owns a big share of. Google, however, is not to look for a death certificate, nor will try to find out why I have ceased my writing here. Then what?

None of my heirs know my password. Google likely knows it - even though I never ask to save that in the computer -, but is going to keep it secret. A good question now follows: Has Google foreseen that my heirs could claim access to my blog after I am done with this world?

Only I know about the spirit of this page, not any of my heirs. In addition, my main targets are: (1) people all around the world I have not met, and (2) people I have met once and became my followers at heart, despite not registered as such on the page. These may provide Google with arguments against my (and else's) heirs in the future, but that will not keep hell in courts at a fair distance.

The Economist online has published today an intriguing article about this very matter: "Who owns your data when you're daed?" It says,

Facebook knows who we love and hate, Google knows what we are interested in. Amazon knows what we buy, and so on... Who owns your data when you're dead?... Digital assets that are stored on shared servers in the cloud... are so new that legal systems have not yet caught up.

We keep ignoring Jesus' words (all of his teachings, actually) that exort us to only store treasures in our heart. The cloud loaded with our memories, thoughts, wisdom (if any) will  not rust, but that may be exactly the problem ahead, as we insist on despising the heart as the right, valuable life storage and feed the cloud as if that would mean real eternity.

I have written about Jesus here before, but now those posts are deep down 'in my archive on the cloud'. I suggest you, dear reader, go to the bottom of this page, and find, on your left, the window that says, 'all posts per week' and read my posts of long ago. Take that as your right now and as long as you should live. Doing so will make you wealthier in the sense of Jesus' words (I am not a believer, but a philosopher and humanist). Above all, your act will make my share in the cloud serve the purpose it was meant to, which goes well beyond business and legal inheritance.

And let the cloud be with us all for the best!
Mariangela