Day: April 8, 2018

  • Marjorie Prime: Virtual relatives provide comfort from the afterlife

    Marjorie Prime: Virtual relatives provide comfort from the afterlife

    A couple of years ago, a computer game called Pokémon Go!, which could be played on smartphones, became so popular worldwide that it was said to have crashed the Google servers it was running on.  People everywhere were peering into their smartphones – not that they needed any additional encouragement to do that – and seeing…