Someone will remember what you may want to forget

Persistent information essay by Phil Bowermaster at Transparency Revolution on how "with writing, information became persistent."

One of the greatest achievements in human history, perhaps the greatest, is the development of tools to make information persistent. Imagine the world before the invention of writing: knowledge could only be stored in living human brains. It took years and years to build up a viable collection of information in any one mind, and it could all be lost in a moment.

The URL tells you where the essay is headed. At one time you could outrun your past. Now the eraser is gone.
Read the whole thing. Very thoughtful.