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  • 16 Sep 09
    driessen
    Driessen Samuel

    informationarchitecture knowledgemanagement forgetting

  • 09 Sep 09
    pchampin
    Pierre-Antoine Champin
  • 08 Sep 09
    dclauzel
    Damien Clauzel

    Réflexion sur l'usage de la mémoire informatique dans notre vie privée; pourquoi et comment arriver à oublier pour mieux se focaliser.

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  • 04 Sep 09
    hugho9
    Hugh O'Donnell
    • Mayer-Schönberger thinks all social software should be designed like Drop.io—to at least ask when we want our posts and uploads to be deleted. That way, we'd be more inclined to meditate for a second about whether something ought to live forever.
      • Hugh O'Donnell

        Hugh O'Donnell on 2009-09-04

        Would there be a way to have personally-configurable expiry dates/times for certain data - and if we wish to forget something shouldn't that encompass the idea that we would want others to do so too!?

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    Hamish Macleod

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  • 10 Aug 09
    wirededitor
    Marty Cortinas

    wired memory

  • joelogon
    Joe Loong

    On applying expiration dates to data. Previously, our problem has been forgetting too much; with technology, now it's remembering too much.

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  • drew3000
    Andrew Lyons

    Mayer-Schönberger argues that we need to stop creating tools that automatically remember everything. Instead, we need to design them to forget.

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    • Society now defaults to a relentless Proustian remembrance of all things past.
    • And society suffers when people stop taking risks.
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  • 08 Aug 09
    takuya514
    Takuya Homma
    • The downsides are obvious. We live with a nagging fear that something we say or do online will come back to haunt us years later. (Just ask anyone who's been Google-vetted at the start of a relationship.) "We become enormously more cautious with what we say or do," says Mayer-Schönberger. And society suffers when people stop taking risks.
    • Being required to think about whether to retain or discard a digital memory will have another side benefit: It will make us pay closer attention—in real time!—to our experiences. If you decide a sunset or a conversation is going to live only in your mind instead of on your hard drive, you'll probably savor it more richly. Just ask Marcel Proust.