What will future archaeologists think?

“Technology has become so important; you can’t just not be alive without it, you can’t be dead without it.” – Genevieve Bell, a senior researcher at Intel, addressing journalists about the findings of a three-year study of how cultural practices in Asia shape people’s relationships with technology, on the fact that in some Asian countries, the dead are being buried with their mobile phones.

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