Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age by Viktor Mayer-Schonberger

Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age



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Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age Viktor Mayer-Schonberger ebook
ISBN: 0691138613, 9780691138619
Page: 256
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Emotions, Ethics and Virtues could sum up this week, even perhaps even this whole year. First I read Emotions Revealed by Paul Ekman then The Ethical Slut and finally, Delete: the Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age. Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age. The right to oblivion is gradually seen as the conceptual solution to turn things around, that is to say, as highlighted by V. I wrote a review a couple of weeks ago of Viktor Mayer-Schoenberger's “Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age” (Powells, Amazon). That at least is the burden of Viktor Mayer-Schönberger's Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age, first published in 2009 and now released in paperback. (Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age, by Viktor Mayer-Schönberger is due out in September). By Viktor Mayer-Schonberger, Princeton University Press, 2009, 256 pages, ISBN 978-0691138619. THEY NEED A SEXIER NAME THAN “ALGAE FUEL.” HOW ABOUT “HYPERFUEL?” BP prepares output of new biofue… » November 6, 2009. Viktor Mayer-Schönberger has written about modern technology and the dangers of not forgetting. Mayer-Schroenberger is a professor of Internet governance and regulation at Oxford University, and author of several books – his most recent is Delete the Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age. Movies like Strange Days deal with the importance of forgetting, while books like Delete ask the same questions. IN THE MAIL: Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age. Viktor Mayer-Schonberger, author of 'Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age'. Total recall online is now a common trope, and one which forms the starting point of Viktor Mayer-Schönberger's provocative new book Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age (Princeton University Press, 2009). Mayer-Schonberger came on the program to discuss his latest book Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age. In his book Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age, Viktor Mayer-Schonberger argues that with computers it's increasingly difficult to delete, and hence to forget. But there are in fact no memories in computers.

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