Chris Insana at Noema:
Last October, Orpheus opened up a lottery, from which 10 people would be selected to beta test the Lazarus app. In the first twenty-four hours, they received more than 12,000 applications. Twelve thousand essays from grieving parents, spouses, and children, all hoping to be one of the lucky ones selected to get to talk again to the people that they lost. On November 1, 10 people were selected at random, each one assigned to a development team.
Jennifer Strong was a single mother who had lost her 13-year-old daughter, Claire, to leukemia 18 months earlier. After receiving word that she was one of the 10 people selected, she sent in her daughter’s computer, cell phone, journals, hundreds of pictures, and anything else she could find. Amy and her team spent a month compiling everything they received and recreating her daughter’s entire personality. Then, they sent her the Lazarus app to download on her phone and her computer, allowing her to talk to her daughter again.
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