Forgetful By Design

With thanx to Clive Thomson. Some Harvard Professor has written a book (due out one of these days) in which he argues that technology has inverted our millenia-old relationship with memory. And I quote: "For most of human history, almost everything people did was forgotten, simply because it was so hard to record and retrieve things. But there was a benefit: 'social forgetting' allowed everyone to move on from embarrassing or ill-conceived moments in their lives. Digital tools have eliminated that amnesty."

I must admit I hadn't looked @ it this way. The book is called 'Delete: the Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age' by V. Mayer-Schönberger.