Digital memory is perfect. Thanks to technology we remember so much more than we used to. And that's good...or is it? Featuring more stories by college students about the once-cool outfits, hairstyles, and moments that bring shame on social media later; then a story of surviving a mass shooting only to relive it in response to a photo on Facebook; and an interview with Diana's sister about Diana's MC Hammer pants and her hideous blazer that mysteriously disappeared in middle school.
(This is a rerelease of an episode produced in 2019.)
Analysis from the 2012 Keble London Lecture by Victor Mayer-Schönberger, author of Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691150369/delete
Music in this episode:
Gabe Stultz of iVoices created the iVoices theme music.
Podington Bear, Lamb http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Podington_Bear/Rhythm_and_Strings/Lamb_1842
Chad Crouch, Peanut Shells http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Chad_Crouch/Electric_Piano_Duets/Peanut_Shells
Kai Engel, Global Warming https://soundcloud.com/kaiengel/global-warming
AJ "DJ UnME" Reynolds featuring Big MC, Can't Touch This (cover) https://soundcloud.com/djunme/big-mc-you-cant-touch-this
Image created by Abhiman Gupta of iVoices, licensed CC-BY.
