CBC News – Technology & Science – Society needs to teach digital systems how to forget, author says
The CBC reports: “In his new book, Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age, Viktor Mayer-Schönberger writes that forgetting is a natural human process, and that digital technology and cheap storage are creating all sorts of unexpected problems.”
via CBC News – Technology & Science – Society needs to teach digital systems how to forget, author says.
The permanent nature of digital memory is one reason that counsel need to be prepared to research litigants and witnesses more extensively than ever before. While paper records and their precursors may last longer than most of today’s digital media, the paper historical record is not nearly as comprehensive as the digital one. As today’s digital tsunami of videos, blogs, websites, databases and even text books are rising to the cloud, where they could stay forever, the costs of litigation will soar with them, as will the opportunity to settle or avoid litigation altogether.