Kerry Bowman

People will visit graves 12 months of the year.

People will keep lockets of hair.

Some people will even go for seances trying to connect back.

They'll try and

create, you know, lucid dreams to bring the person back.

So this is not new human behavior.

People crave people that they miss.

And so it's kind of an extension of that, but it's got a level of, you know, it's got a level of reality and a level of artificialness that's unprecedented, like never before.

So there's a huge human instinct to want to do these types of things.

But I would argue, you know, in advance of this interview, I didn't have a huge amount of time, because I teach a course on emerging technologies, and I want to teach this very topic in the months ahead.

So I went for the evidence.

You know, the way we're supposed to do these days, and less and less people do.

But there's not much.

There's not much at all, right?

It's just too early to be sure.

There are psychologists and various people coming up with opinions, and I guess I'm in that category too.

But, you know, the evidence is simply we just don't know yet.

I don't either.

I get nervous, though, when market forces drive most of this, because what the patterns that we see with emerging technologies is they tend to be oversold.

They tend to be linked to infomercials, you know, stay in touch with your loved one or keep loving your whatever they're going to do.