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Seun Omisore _ — عنوان: تنور - مجموعه داستانهای کوتاه؛ نویسنده: هوشنگ مرادی کرمانی؛ پانزده داستان کوتاه است

Alizée Adamek alizeeadamek — Do we know what we're doing to our future selves by saving a permanent record of our digital memories, conversations and information to hard drives and the internet? Is it even our own choice to do so anymore? The author brings up some provocative ideas- about the digital age bringing a significant change to how we use 'external storage devices' (books being an older form) to extend our own faulty animal capacities to remember. One scenario describes us forming our own surveillance network, not only in space but through time - what he calls a "temporal panopticon", based on that prison designed by Jeremy Bentham to give prisoners the feeling of being under constant surveillance, encouraging them to always keep their behaviour in check. Things that would have once been forgotten (a drunken Facebook photo) come back to haunt our future selves in ways we couldn't have predicted, so we end up self-censoring, putting on our best digital public face just in case. This sounds slightly paranoid and perhaps we must all just learn how to become more candid, or learn how to read digital material with more caution (maybe cultivate a shared sense that people change over time even if their documents don't). I like a lot of the ideas in the book, though I feel the author could have found more convincing real-life examples of the possible dangers of sharing information. Also, the way he sums up of the points made in conclusions at the end of each chapter felt a bit tiresome, reading like a student essay at times, or a powerpoint presentation. I did come away re-thinking how much control we have over what we are doing on the internet though. It might be easy to say "well, I have nothing to hide, so who cares?" until all of the information collected and shared by companies over your lifetime are used by future public/private organisations to affect your pension, your access to health coverage or insurance, etc. The idea of having to defend your own life memory against a (more trusted?) digital memory of your life - this might turn out to be more of a concern than just ending up on a junk-mailing list we didn't sign up for.