Human knowledge is based on memory. But does the digital age force us to remember too much? Viktor Mayer-Schönberger argues that we must delete and let go.
My personal favourite from the Guardian’s article?
The article can be found at http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/jun/30/remember-delete-forget-digital-age.
Mayer-Schönberger’s book, Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age, is published in paperback on 25 July by Princeton University Press, £12.50.
My personal favourite from the Guardian’s article?
- Yet through millennia, forgetting has remained just a bit easier and cheaper than remembering.
No longer. Because of the digital revolution, he argues, it is easier to keep everything – the drunken email you sent your boss, the photo you put on Facebook in which you're doing something non-CV-enhancing to an inflatable cow – rather than go through the palaver of deciding what to consign to oblivion.
The article can be found at http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/jun/30/remember-delete-forget-digital-age.
Mayer-Schönberger’s book, Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age, is published in paperback on 25 July by Princeton University Press, £12.50.
Checking back I find that there are reviews of this book in 2009. The article is clearly dated 30 June 2011 – but the link to the Guardian Bookshop is to a publication date of 2009.
I’m confused!
No longer. I went back and read the whole of the article – a new edition is to be published. Surprising that Amazon does not have it catalogued.
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