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Birth of a cloud that will never forget

Tracing the history of IT and the disruptive changes that have occurred, Richard Waters muses on the latest issue - that with the falling cost of storage, a lot of very personal data can now be stored forever. This permanent "social memory" may be seen by many as an invasion of privacy - stored data is theoretically accessible to anyone. Nothing will ever be forgotten. For those who long ago posted wild and crazy times on Facebook, this will be no surprise. What are the implications of this persistence of memory?

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