Jan. 6, 2021 9:33 am ET
If my son asked me today to see video of my late grandfather, whose name he bears, I’d be in trouble.
First, I’d have to locate the VHS tapes. Then I’d have to hunt down a gray-market VCR. ($500 and up for defunct technology!) Then I’d have to meet in some other dark alley for a converter box to hook it up to my fancy smart TV. Then I’d have to hope that, back in 1996, someone was kind and did in fact rewind.
Luckily, my 3-year-old only asks for “Dora the Explorer.”
Technology allows us to preserve the stories of people who die assuming the technology doesn’t die, too.
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LIVE Q&A Replay | January 7, 2021
WSJ+ Live: How to Prepare Your Digital Legacy With Joanna Stern
In her documentary, E-Ternal: A Tech Quest to ‘Live’ Forever, WSJ’s Joanna Stern travels across the world to examine how technology can be used to preserve our life stories when we die. In a live interactive event, hear tips on how to prepare your digital legacy, from adding legacy contacts to your accounts to creating a digital will, as well as how to record memories of the people you love. She ll be joined by experts and special guests from the film, which is viewable at www.wsj.com/eternal.