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Subtitle: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age
By: Viktor Mayer-Schonberger.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 237
ISBN-13: 9780691138619
Subjects: Memory; Computer storage devices; Internet -- Social aspects; Persistence
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: label: Acknowledgments
pagenum: ix; label: CHAPTER 1
title: Failing to Forget the "Drunken Pirate"
pagenum: 1; label: CHAPTER II
title: The Role of Remembering and the Importance of Forgetting
pagenum: 16; label: CHAPTER III
title: The Demise of Forgetting--and Its Drivers
pagenum: 50; label: CHAPTER IV
title: Of Power and Time--Consequences of the Demise of Forgetting
pagenum: 92; label: CHAPTER V
title: Potential Responses
pagenum: 128; label: CHAPTER VI
title: Reintroducing Forgetting
pagenum: 169; label: CHAPTER VII
title: Conclusions
pagenum: 196; label: Notes
pagenum: 201; label: Bibliography
pagenum: 219; label: Index
pagenum: 233