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Viktor Mayer-Schönberger presents DELETE

August 25, 2010


A book talk with professor Viktor Mayer-Schönberger who examines the technology that is facilitating the end of forgetting in his book, “Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age”. Mayer-Schönberger argues that in our quest for perfect digital memories where we can store everything from recipes and family photographs to work emails and personal information, we have put ourselves in danger of losing a very human quality—the ability and privilege of forgetting.

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