Austrian Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, author and professor of Internet Governance and Regulation at Oxford University’s Internet Institute thinks we – and society as a whole – do too much of the former and too little of the latter, (no) thanks to the internet and digital technologies. And he thinks the situation needs to change.
His 2009 book Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age was a philosophical and sociopolitical consideration of the effects on society of the internet’s (and therefore, our) inability to forget even the most minute factoids of our lives. Data connected to our name and our every activity is posted and stored constantly online and in digital databases around the globe – whether we consult Google, upload a video to YouTube, post a comment on Facebook, or fill out a form on a retailer’s website. Read More
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