VIKTOR MAYER-SCHONBERGER at Town Hall Seattle

10/19/2009 7:30 pm
Co-presented with the TOWN HALL CENTER FOR CIVIC LIFE. Thanks to social networking and other euphemisms for electronically-transmitted data, the question of what is remembered and what is forgotten is subject to question more than ever. Former Kennedy School of Government at Harvard professor Viktor Mayer-Schonberger—presently director of the Information and Innovation Policy Research Centre at the National University of Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, is here with his timely book on that very subject, Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age (Princeton). This is a researched treatise arguing the dangers of everlasting memory, never mind it's being altered. Privacy rights and other issues, some of them fundamental to us now, also loom. $5 tickets are available at the door starting at 6:30 p.m. or in advance via www.brownpapertickets.com or 1-800-838-3006. Preferred seating for Town Hall members. Town Hall Seattle is at 1119 Eighth Avenue (entry downstairs on Seneca). For more information on this evening, please call (206) 652-4255 or see www.townhallseattle.org.

ISBN-13: 9780691138619
Availability: Temporarily out. Orders usually back in stock in 1-5 days
Published: Princeton University Press, 10/2009

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Town Hall Seattle
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1119 Eighth Avenue
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Seattle
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Washington
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98101
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United States