Title: Delete : the virtue of forgetting in the digital age /
Authors: Mayer-Schönberger, Viktor
Publisher: Princeton University Press,
Year: 2009
Subjects: Memory.; Computer storage devices.; Internet Social aspects; Persistence; Memory [MESH]
Abstract: The ability to forget, or be forgotten, has played an important part in human society, allowing for changed minds, second chances & overlooked embarrassments. Digital technology, with its inexhaustible memory, threatens one of the most important social conventions: the past is past. This book explores the issues.
Contents: Failing to forget the "drunken pirate" -- The role of remembering and the importance of forgetting -- The demise of forgetting-and its drivers -- Of power and time-consequences of the demise of forgetting -- Potential responses -- Reintroducing forgetting -- Conclusions.