CSU-Carig
Mayer-Schönberger, Viktor
Delete : [electronic resource] the virtue of forgetting in the digital age / - Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2009 - one online resource, 264 pages : illustrations ;
leisure reading
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
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
9780691138619
Memory
Computer storage devices
Internet -- Social aspects
Persistence
153.125
Delete : [electronic resource] the virtue of forgetting in the digital age / - Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2009 - one online resource, 264 pages : illustrations ;
leisure reading
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
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
9780691138619
Memory
Computer storage devices
Internet -- Social aspects
Persistence
153.125