Delete: the virtue of forgetting in the digital age

TitleDelete: the virtue of forgetting in the digital age
Publication TypeBook
Year of Publication2009
AuthorsViktor Mayer-Schönberger
PublisherPrinceton University Press
CityPrinceton
ISBN Number978-0-691-13861-9 0-691-13861-3
Abstract

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.

Short TitleDelete