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I’ve been making some changes to this site recently: upgrading to the newest version of WordPress, choosing a new theme and fiddling with the layout. One thing I discovered is that, unless you’re running a very minimal installation, it’s quite easy to run out of memory, even with only a handful of plug-ins. Versions of the software 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. 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. We have no idea, do we, of where this stuff will be in the future? “The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.” That’s what Omar Khayyam wrote. But |             | |||
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