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Delete looks at the surprising phenomenon of perfect remembering in the digital era, and unveils why we must reintroduce our capacity to ignore. Digital technology empowers us as never before, yet it includes unforeseen outcomes as well. Potentially humiliating content on Facebook is enshrined on the net for future employers to see. Google remembers everything we've sought out and when. The digital realm remembers what is sometimes better ignored, and this has serious implications for all of us all.
In Delete, Viktor Mayer-Schönberger traces the top role that forgetting has played throughout history, from the ability to make reasonable decisions unencumbered by the past to the likelihood of second chances. The written expression made it easy for humans to keep in mind across generations and time, yet now digital technology and global systems are overriding our natural capability to forget--the past is ever present, prepared to be called up at the click of the mouse. Mayer-Schönberger examines the technology that's facilitating the finish of forgetting--digitization, cheap safe-keeping and easy retrieval, global access, and increasingly powerful software--and represents the risks of everlasting digital memory, whether it's out-of-date information taken out of context or diminishing photos the net won't let us forget. He points out why information privateness protection under the law and other fixes can't help us, and proposes an ingeniously simple solution--expiration dates on information--that may.
Delete is an eye-opening book that will help us remember how to ignore in the digital era.