I was watching one of those poorly rated films late last night on Netflix. This one had Robin Williams in it and was called The Final Cut. It’s a bit of a strange one but it’s set in the future where people have implants that record everything they do through life. It’s the cutters job (Robin Williams) to create a short edited film of these lives to be played back at their funeral.

It’s a strange one but got me thinking that surely there's probably enough footage, images and content shared on each of our lives to make a pretty good film edit, a way of distilling our lives down as such. Not necessarily individually but as a collective. We already see it happening with the rich and famous when they die, I can only think of Steve Jobs biography but I'm sure there are plenty more.

What happens to our digital life after we are gone is something I think we need to address, especially how this material is stored, retrieved and ultimately edited. If this is what the film was trying to get across I am happy I watched it, albeit the film wasn't great and as I said just plain strange.

What are your thoughts? Do leave your comments.