Digital Remembering

Evgeny Morozov reviews Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age by Viktor Mayer-Schonberger:

Mayer-Schönberger fails to recognize that it is reminiscence—notforgetting—that faces extinction in the digital age. As Facebook andTwitter prioritize the present—our most recent updates always appearfirst while older ones have a shelf-life of half an hour—our digitallives are increasingly detached even from the most recent past. (Theubiquitous ADHD does not help either; Mark Helprin...