Forever online: Your digital legacy
Your photos, status updates and tweets will fascinate future historians. Will these online remains last forever? In this special report, newscientist.com editor Sumit Paul-Choudhury reports on life, loss, memory and forgetting in the internet age.
The fate of your online soul
We are the first people in history to create vast online records of our lives. How much of it will endure when we are gone?
Archaeology of the future
Future historians will want to study the birth of the web using our digital trails – but how will they make sense of it all?
Respecting the digital dead
How can we keep digital bequests safe without poking our noses where they’re not wanted?
Amateur heroes of online heritage
It’ll take more than money alone to preserve today’s internet pages for posterity
Digital legacy: Teaching the net to forget
We’ve begun to accept that the internet cannot forget, but the power to change that has been in our hands for decades
