- From: Toby Inkster <tai@g5n.co.uk>
- Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 10:34:06 +0000
- To: public-xg-socialweb@w3.org
I'm about half-way through this book by Viktor Mayer-Schonberger. It covers how, with the invention of language, writing, printing, and now digital storage, it has become progressively cheaper and easier to store information rather than not. For example, if you assume it takes 3 seconds to decide whether to keep or delete a photograph, and you assume your time is worth an average wage, then going through your digital camera and deciding which photos to keep is now more expensive than the hard disk space required to simply keep them all. The default behaviour was once to forget, as remembering took effort. In the last decade or so though, this has been changing towards a default policy of remembering. Mayer-Schonberger discusses the implications (some positive, many negative) this is having on society, and possible solutions. It's a really good read, very jargon-free, and I highly recommend it to SWXG members as it has a lot of relevance to what we're doing. -- Toby A Inkster <mailto:mail@tobyinkster.co.uk> <http://tobyinkster.co.uk>
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