By “erasing external memories,” he says in the book, “our society accepts that human beings evolve over time, that we have the capacity to learn from past experiences and adjust our behavior.” In traditional societies, where missteps are observed but not necessarily recorded, the limits of human memory ensure that people’s sins are eventually forgotten. By contrast, Mayer-Schönberger notes, a society in which everything is recorded “will forever tether us to all our past actions, making it impossible, in practice, to escape them.” He concludes that “without some form of forgetting, forgiving becomes a difficult undertaking.”
Toller Artikel in der New York Times über das Vergessen und Vergessenlassen im digitalen Zeitalter. Wenn alle Fehler gespeichert werden und somit unvergessen bleiben, wie gehen Menschen dann mit Fehlern um und wie werden sie durch diese Angst vor Fehlern - die früher "observed but not necessarily recorded" wurden - anders handeln? Werden sie risikofeiger? Die Zeit wird es zeigen... (via @SoerenStamer)
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