There is about to be a big debate that will be coming to us one court case at a time. It will be over data and privacy. For instance, should you be able to catch a cold case murderer by using DNA from his or her relatives — without their consent?
Today, lots of data already exists and there will be more and more data coming within the public and private sectors.
Yes, technology will be with us until we die. Even then, maybe we could use tech. For instance:
Given it is almost Halloween, I read this once, on where terms come from — might be a myth ...
Back in the day, it might be possible for someone to be presumed dead and be buried — still alive. So one of the techniques used was to attach a string into the casket tied up through the soil to a bell hung over the grave. In the cemetery someone would be stationed to listen for "the bell." If the bell was rung, they had a "Dead Ringer." The people stationed to listen staffed the "Grave Yard Watch."
I can't resist — nothing to do with technology, more about being scared out of one's wits should this have happened to me:
OK, one more story from a former emergency manager. As he told it, he worked part time in a mortuary. He could be there in the evening and there could be bodies that had been brought in and not yet embalmed. He said he was in such a room when "a body sat up" on the table. I guess it was from rigor mortis. That would be "heart check" for me!