Reading an interesting article on Wired (they've been pumping out some good stuff lately ... or is it just I'm paying more attention?) regarding the internet and its inherit "never forget" functionality.  So I sat back for a minute and pondered this idea.  What if NOTHING ever went away?  Everything you said, everything you took a picture of never would go away.  It was stuck forever on some hard drive somewhere.  That's kind of scary.

Imagine it ... "That picture" you really didn't want a future employer to see, a certain rant you posted up on a website that really wasn't justified and so forth.  Even more simply, think of how much differently you might have acted simply IF there was a camera somewhere?  Would you have done half of what you did as a kid?  Of course not, I never would have experienced the "half full" incident or the cap explosion if cameras were involved.

At the same time, do I think that everything should be deleted in a period of time?  No, but within context and usefulness, yes.  If we would delete everything, we would've forgotten about the declaration of independence, the Constitution, and other major events in human history.  Pictures in this regard are more "heavy" because they leave interpretation up to the viewer, where a written document can have biased writing within it ... like my blog is awesome and you should read it :-) 

I don't think my blog should persist posts after 10 years.  In 10 years time, think of how far computers have come ... would most, if ANY of that be relevant?  I would hardly think so.  Now would someone that makes furniture and posted up instruction 10 years from now still hold merit?  Of course. Ultimately, I think some data should go away.  It's not relevant other than for historical or research reasons (where we've been) but for now, we're stuck in the age of never forgetting (or at least being able to look it up ... be it right or wrong)