by Derek Morrison, 14 November 2009
Here’s definitely one for my techno-dysfunctions category.
At 18m 30s into The World’s technology podcast 263 there was an interesting interview with Viktor Mayer-Schönberger about his book Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age (Princeton University Press, 2009). The Princeton Press site also offers a link to a separate podcast on the same topic, this time produced by Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society.
Mayer-Schönberger offers an interesting analysis of the consequences of digital “memories” that should sometimes be allowed to fade and the unexpected consequences if they do not.
For the more visually inclined the Berkman Center has also produced a video from a presentation given by Mayer-Schönberger on 7 October 2009.
Other videos offered by the Berkman Center on YouTube also offer valuable food for thought on a wide range of topics that should be interest to all students of the digital world we are now beginning to try and inhabit.
