Useful Void: The Art of Forgetting in the Age of Ubiquitous Computing
Useful Void: The Art of Forgetting in the Age of Ubiquitous Computing
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有用的空虚：普适计算时代的遗忘艺术
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2007
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Viktor Mayer
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作者：
Viktor Mayer
作为人类，我们有能力记住和忘记。几千年来，记忆很难，忘记很容易。如果不这样做，我们就会忘记。数字技术颠覆了这一点。今天，有了经济实惠的存储、轻松的检索和全球访问，记忆已经成为我们个人和整个社会的默认。我们存储我们的数码照片，不管它们是否好-因为即使选择扔掉也太耗时了，并保留我们工作的文档的不同版本，以防万一我们需要回到早期的版本。谷歌保存了每个搜索查询，数百万的视频监控摄像头保留了我们的动作。在本文中，我分析了这种转变，并将其与技术创新和信息经济学联系起来。然后我提出了为什么我们可能要担心这种转变，并呼吁我所说的数据生态学。与其他人不同的是，我并不要求全面的新法律或宪法裁决。相反，我提出了一个简单的规则，恢复了我们社会几千年来所经历的遗忘的默认值，我展示了法律和技术的结合如何实现这一转变。
As humans we have the capacity to remember and to forget. For millennia remembering was hard, and forgetting easy. By default, we would forget. Digital technology has inverted this. Today, with affordable storage, effortless retrieval and global access remembering has become the default, for us individually and for society as a whole. We store our digital photos irrespective of whether they are good or not - because even choosing which to throw away is too time-consuming, and keep different versions of the documents we work on, just in case we ever need to go back to an earlier one. Google saves every search query, and millions of video surveillance cameras retain our movements. In this article I analyze this shift and link it to technological innovation and information economics. Then I suggest why we may want to worry about the shift, and call for what I term data ecology. In contrast to others I do not call for comprehensive new laws or constitutional adjudication. Instead I propose a simple rule that reinstates the default of forgetting our societies have experienced for millennia, and I show how a combination of law and technology can achieve this shift.