Mayer-Schonberger, Viktor

Delete The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age (Kartoniert / Broschiert / Paperback)

Princeton University Press, Juli 2011

Revised ed - 272 S. - Sprache: Englisch - 1 table. - 216x139x19 mm

ISBN: 0691150362 EAN: 9780691150369

A study that looks at the surprising phenomenon of perfect remembering in the digital age, and reveals why we must reintroduce the capacity to forget

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix Chapter I: Failing to Forget the "Drunken Pirate" 1 Chapter II: The Role of Remembering and the Importance of Forgetting 16 Chapter III: The Demise of Forgetting--and Its Drivers 50 Chapter IV: Of Power and Time--Consequences of the Demise of Forgetting 92 Chapter V: Potential Responses 128 Chapter VI: Reintroducing Forgetting 169 Chapter VII: Conclusions 196 Afterword to the Paperback Edition 201 Notes 211 Bibliography 231 Index 245

Über den Autor

Viktor Mayer-Sch?nberger is professor of internet governance and regulation at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, and a member of the academic advisory board of Microsoft. His other books include Governance and Information Technology. A former software developer and lawyer, he spent ten years on the faculty of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.

Kritikerstimmen

"Mayer-Schonberger deserves to be applauded and Delete deserves to be read for making us aware of the timelessness of what we created and for getting us to consider what endless accumulation might portend."--Paul Duguid, Times Literary Supplement

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