Delete
The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age
by Viktor Mayer-Schönberger and Viktor Nberger
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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.
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Computer storage devices, Persistence, Memory, Social aspects, Internet, Social aspects of Internet, Right of Privacy, Right to be forgotten, Informationssamhället, Informationsgesellschaft, Atarazanas, Personenbezogene Daten, Datenspeicherung, Sociala aspekter, Gedächtnis, Speicher <Informatik>, Minnet, Datorminnen, Speicher, Sociology, General, Computer & internet, Information technology, Professional, career & trade -> computer science -> information technology, Professional, career & trade -> law -> law, Social sciences -> political science -> public policy, Internet, social aspects, Personality, Memory [MESH]| Edition | Availability |
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Delete - The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age
2011, Princeton University Press
in English
1283519259 9781283519250
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Delete: The Virtune of Forgetting in the Digital Age
2011, Princeton University Press
Paperback
0691150362 9780691150369
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Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age
2011, Princeton University Press
in English
1400838452 9781400838455
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Delete: the Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age
2009, Princeton University Press
in English
1282569171 9781282569171
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Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age
2009, Princeton University Press
Hardcover
in English
0691138613 9780691138619
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Delete leads us to an understanding of the digital age and how the inability to ‘forget’ has unforeseen and perhaps humiliating consequences in our daily lives. With Facebook now showing all of your past posts and discussion threads it is harder and harder to hope your mistakes will be forgotten. Viktor Mayer-Schönberger follows the important role of forgetting and how it has impacted our everyday lives both historically and currently. Along with an explanation of why information privacy rights and other legal fixes can’t help us. He concludes by giving us a simple solution.
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