Desafios do novo mundo digital e um sério alerta para aqueles que colocam online tudo e mais alguma coisa da sua vida privada. E um aviso para os pais e educadores começarem desde cedo a sensibilizar as crianças e os jovens para esta realidade: tudo o que vai para a net, fica na net e pode ter consequências sérias no futuro. Um excerto e um link:
«(...) In a recent book, “Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age,” the cyberscholar Viktor Mayer-Schönberger cites Stacy Snyder’s case as a reminder of the importance of “societal forgetting.” By “erasing external memories,” he says in the book, “our society accepts that human beings evolve over time, that we have the capacity to learn from past experiences and adjust our behavior.” In traditional societies, where missteps are observed but not necessarily recorded, the limits of human memory ensure that people’s sins are eventually forgotten. By contrast, Mayer-Schönberger notes, a society in which everything is recorded “will forever tether us to all our past actions, making it impossible, in practice, to escape them.” He concludes that “without some form of forgetting, forgiving becomes a difficult undertaking.”
It’s often said that we live in a permissive era, one with infinite second chances. But the truth is that for a great many people, the permanent memory bank of the Web increasingly means there are no second chances — no opportunities to escape a scarlet letter in your digital past. Now the worst thing you’ve done is often the first thing everyone knows about you. (...)»
The Web Means the End of Forgetting - NYTimes.com
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