外刊阅读精选：数字化资产—不死的数据

　　本篇阅读材料数字化资产不死的数据选自《经济学人》(原文标题：Deathless data What happens to our digital property after we die? 2012.4.21)。如果大家觉得比较简单，就当作泛读材料了解了解，认识几个新单词或新表达方式也不错。如果大家觉得这些材料理解上有难度，不妨当做挑战自己的拔高训练，希望大家都有进步^^

　　LORNE GLADSTONE of Toronto is 58, but prudently pondering how to bequeath his digital property. Doing the paperwork after his parents death was a challenge. When my time comes, I wonder if my children will even know what paper is, he says. As a software developer, his virtual assets are both valuable and vital to his business. That exemplifies a problem. Online lives have increasing economic and sentimental value. But testamentary laws offer muddled and incomplete ways of bequeathing and inheriting them.