First Coined In 2012 Digital Afterlife trend icon

Digital Afterlife

During the past year, more companies started to focus on the digital afterlife, creating tools, education, and services to help manage all the data that loved ones leave behind when they die.

The 2012 Non-Obvious Trend Report, where Digital Afterlife was first coined

First published in the 2012 Non-Obvious Trend Report →

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B Graded B in 2026 ·
a strong prediction that largely held up

How this trend held up

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