James Drogan

From /. Slashdot comes an interesting post titled Harvard Prof Says Computers Need to Forget. 

At various time I have blogged here and elsewhere, and spoken in forums regarding the nature of the data, information, and, hopefully, knowledge that is available in an always connected, always on, always transmitting world.  Web 2.0 and user generation of content exacerbates the significance of the issue.

It never occurred to me that a solution, as apparently being suggested by Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, a professor in Harvard's JFK School of Government, would be, on some basis, to simply forget.  I've not read Mayer-Schönberger's paper, but will.

An interesting issue, this.  I'm writing a new lecture note on data management for my MIS class and this notion of forgetting will likely be part of it.