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I mentioned this a couple of posts back. Delete discusses ‘The Virtues of Forgetting in the Digital Age’. Unfortunately, I couldn’t attend but the RSA has — as always — made the audio of the talk available to everyone. See the link below for details. Google remembers everything we’ve searched for and when. via youtube.com Ermm… haven’t I seen this somewhere before? Say in about 2002? Nobody bought Tablet PCs then, either. Found this, which confirms some of my malcontent: More access to information doesn’t bring people together, often it isolates us. Elizabeth Kolbert has a piece in this week’s New Yorker reviewing Cass Sunstein’s new book, “On Rumors: How Falsehoods Spread, Why We Believe Them, What Can Be Done.” In the review she lays 42.6% of respondents say they feel less inhibited interacting online than face-to-face. 20% say they lashed out at companies or products thanks to the anonymity of online interaction. 31.5% say that online interaction let them do something they’d been wanting to do. Research from Euro RSCG suggests (as you’d have guessed) that Continue reading SocNet Users Enhance Relationships, Lose Inhibitions For the human condition, forgetting is at least as important as remembering — sometimes more so. Without it, we are all bound to lead the miserable life of A. R. Luria’s patient Solomon Shereshevsky, who was crippled by his boundless, indelible memory, or his fictional counterpart, Jorge Luis Borges’s Funes. Like many people, I’m really looking forward to the UK publication of David McCandless’ The Visual Miscellaneum. This graphic might come as a surprise to some people. If the main way you’ve found out about social media is through conference programmes and the most frequently cited blog posts, you could not be blamed for |             | |||
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