Lest we (don’t) forget
May 11th, 2007 by rbanks
Prof advocates digital forgetfulness, calls Google ‘Soviet’
“The professor suggests that the human race has “unlearned” or “lost the capacity” to forget things (he struggles desperately to avoid saying that we have forgotten how to). He doesn’t really explain why this is a bad thing, but he does note that: “If whatever we do can be held against us years later, if all our impulsive comments are preserved…our words and actions may be perceived years later and taken out of context…the lack of forgetting may prompt us speak less freely and openly.”
The Register
