Posted in Uncategorized on September 27, 2010 by geejula
ISSUES :
Remembering and forgetting,Storage of Data,Retrieving the Data,Power and Time,Panopticon(means -in global world internet is watching every one by means of camera’s are storage ),Time/Decision, all these issues where discussed in a book called DELETE: THE VIRTUE OF FORGETTING IN DIGITAL AGE written by Viktor Mayer-Schonberger, Winner of the 2010 Don K. Price Award for Best Book in Science and Technology Politics, Section on Science, Technology, and Environmental Politics (STEP) by the American Political Science Association.
In the past the storage and retrieval of information was limited. So if people want to remember they used to written down the things or they have to depend of human memory. As the time past, more and the more could me recorded, but retrieving the data in analogue world was still difficult.
However, in the present world, digital recording and advance of cheep and vast storage made easier to record everything including our personal collections of digital photos, email in boxes and soon…At the same time recall methods have advance, so that i can look up an email i sent more then ten years ago.
By this human forgetting to machines remembering is the main them of :vikator mayer -delete.
DIGITAL REMEMBERING :
Because of digital remembering a newly qualified teacher failing to get a job on account of the picture of her on a social networking site, the psychotherapist refused entry to the USA because of a journal article, published several years ago, in which he mentions having taken a drug. examples of how society is now able to remember facts about your life that you have forgotten yourself. This the problem of perfect memory and history of forgetting humankind’s battle against it .
Power and time:
There is a loss of power, as information about us is duplicated and reused , with or with out permission , and even negation of time . Among the issues are two terrifying possibilities, that perfect memory threatens reasons, abstract thought and the ability to make decision in the present, and that the reasons for retaining data now may seem sensible, but what if it should fall into the wrong hands in the future. Having clearly and concisely built a picture of the problem, form the early days of human history to the present, Mayer then turns to some potential solutions.
* Information privacy issues.
*Digital rights management.
*Effectively tuning search engines.
That is say, every piece of information, from files on your hard drive, thought your email and even your search terms and online purchase history is given an expiration date. Up to this point we have been taken in, we are willing to overlook the odd overstatement–information retrieval is easy for example.
After reading this book i came to point that most of the things which viktor mayer mentioned where right.
This is deliberate on his part, perhaps you all will disagree with me, applying a expiration date on each and every file which is uploaded on internet is not a good idea. But… but we need to hide some files on internet which is not helpful for society… If a user want to access such files he need to provide his personal details… by this ..it make easy for the gov to track that person.
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