When Facebook Resurrected the Dead

http://tomscott.com - @tomscott - When Facebook claimed they could resurrect the dead, the world laughed. But Facebook were entirely serious.

I first came across the idea of recreating dead people from their works in the later chapters of Charles Stross' brilliant Accelerando - although those resimulations were a little more impressive. http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/accelerando/accelerando-intro.html