Viktor Mayer-Schonberger: Remembering has become the norm, and forgetting the exception.
Adam Keiper: The implications are uncertain but potentially troubling. But what's so bad about a little self-censorship?
Eric Schmidt: If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place.
Georgie Binks: Where do computer files go when you die?
Greg Conti: Time is of the essence.
William Deresiewicz: Facebook holds out a utopian possibility: What once was lost will now be found. But the heaven of the past is a promised land destroyed in the reaching. Facebook, here, becomes the anti-madeleine, an eraser of memory. Mementos, snapshots, reunions, and now this -- all of them modes of amnesia, foes of true remembering. The past should stay in the heart, where it belongs.
David Clark: If the gathering, storage, and processing of information puts us all in the center of a digital panopticon, the failure to forget creates a panopticon crossbred with a time-travel machine. Don't forget about forgetting.
Thom Andersen: Perhaps "Blade Runner" expresses a nostalgia for a dystopian vision of the future that has become outdated. This vision offered some consolation, because it was at least sublime. Now the future looks brighter, hotter and blander. Computers will get faster, and we will get slower. There will be plenty of progress, but few of us will be any better off or happier for it.
Louis CK: Everything is amazing right now, and nobody's happy ...
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