This and a few other interesting concerns are up in Delete[1] by Viktor Mayer-Schönberger.
This is a very interesting book that explains a lot of historical context for how the digital age differs from what came before. The linked blog post highlights the temporal aspect of digital memory - that a post from a day ago is as easily accessible as one from ten years ago.
Perhaps even more important is that because we limit what we post, context gets completely removed. So many people carefully curate their identity that the image we see of a person is not only an image from N years ago, but is also only what N years ago's version of one's self chose to publish to the web.
We definitely live in interesting times, I would encourage anyone that thinks on this phenomenon to check out the book.
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This and a few other interesting concerns are up in Delete[1] by Viktor Mayer-Schönberger.
This is a very interesting book that explains a lot of historical context for how the digital age differs from what came before. The linked blog post highlights the temporal aspect of digital memory - that a post from a day ago is as easily accessible as one from ten years ago.
Perhaps even more important is that because we limit what we post, context gets completely removed. So many people carefully curate their identity that the image we see of a person is not only an image from N years ago, but is also only what N years ago's version of one's self chose to publish to the web.
We definitely live in interesting times, I would encourage anyone that thinks on this phenomenon to check out the book.
1. http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8981.html