September 30, 2007
Forget it.
“We used to have a system in which we forgot things easily and had to invest energy in remembering,” says Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, an associate professor of public policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. “Now we’re switching to a system in which we remember everything and have to invest energy in order to forget. That’s an enormous transformation.”
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Thanks Andrew, this is great. I have wondered for a long time about what would happen if a person could record his or her entire life: 360 degree hat camera (HD+ so retroactive exploration might be done) linked to other deep data: odor analysis; subsonic sound; spectral analysis; memory within memory linking assists…. Might a person fall into giving up this life for another that had already happened? Grief, particularly over lost loved ones, would tend to solidify this activity. How many people might have to be rescued from the past. Cops break in and unplug them, bring them out, pale and blinking to the bright light outside the cave.