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The Rise of the Delete Culture

“Humanity has moved from a millennial culture of recording information to a new culture of deleting it.”—Luciano Floridi

This quote from a recent academic paper by Luciano Floridi might seem shocking, but it’s a reality we’re living in. In the digital age, we’re drowning in data. Every day, we generate more information than we know what to do with. The question is no longer what to save, but what to delete.

Considerations:

• The shift from recording to deleting information is due to the digital nature of most information today.
• The crucial decision now concerns what to remove or delete.