Memory
Some thoughts this morning on memory…
A Boston Globe article last week commented on the problems arising from the virtually limitless “memory” of our digital age, allowing all of our indiscretions and mis-steps to survive forever in cyberspace – and to be easily indexed and retrieved. As librarians and researchers, of course, this is great. But as “normal people” (I use this merely for lack of a better term :-) there are advantages to amnesia.
The article discusses the concept of “data ecology” where companies collecting and holding certain types of data would be required to delete it after . . . [more]