“Delete” is a book that looks at the surprising phenomenon of perfect remembering in the digital age and why we must reintroduce our capacity to forget. In “Delete” author traces the important role that forgetting has played throughout human history.
The whole book is about one subject: digital memory, an offspring of the digital age. Some may say this is fantastic futuristic. It is wonderful for having a perfect memory, for not forgetting things at all. But is it a wonderful thing at all? Humiliating content on facebook for future employers to see, google remembers everything we have searched for and when.
Forgetting is an important function of our brain; it has significant effect on our body, psychologically and physically. Often crime victims lose their short-term memory, they just can’t remember what happened to them, that is just their brain copping with the traumatic events that has happened, forget temporarily to help the victims to recover and prevent further harm psychologically.
We all deserve second chance, away from our past away from our mistakes, we are human, and we all have our secrets, but these days digital memory makes it impossible to forget, Humiliating content on facebook and youtube, gossip about you on twitter, it is just too hard to move on without be able to forget.
We all deserve our privacy; deserve to be left alone, so we can lick our wound and moving on,
We all should working together to resolve this problem like author suggested; put expiration dates on information. We should improve and humanize technology to make our lives better and make us to forget.
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