Delete : : The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age / / Viktor Mayer-Schönberger.

Delete looks at the surprising phenomenon of perfect remembering in the digital age, and reveals why we must reintroduce our capacity to forget. Digital technology empowers us as never before, yet it has unforeseen consequences as well. Potentially humiliating content on Facebook is enshrined in cyb...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2011]
©2011
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (272 p.) :; 1 table.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Chapter I. Failing to Forget the "Drunken Pirate"
  • Chapter II. The Role of Remembering and the Importance of Forgetting
  • Chapter III. The Demise of Forgetting-and Its Drivers
  • Chapter IV. Of Power and Time-Consequences of the Demise of Forgetting
  • Chapter V. Potential Responses
  • Chapter VI. Reintroducing Forgetting
  • Chapter VII. Conclusions
  • Afterword to the Paperback Edition
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index