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In Business: Thanks for the Memory

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04/09/2014

Thanks for the Memory

BBC Radio 4 - In Business, Thanks for the Memory

The internet lets us remember everything forever. Peter Day asks if this a good thing.

The internet and social networking have created the possibility of total recall for life's most significant moments. Peter Day talks to people building businesses around this idea.

The internet and and the rapid rise of social networking creates the possibility of remembering forever most of life's most significant (and insignificant) moments - maybe all of them.
Peter Day hears from people building businesses based on this new extension of the human mind, and asks whether total recall really is a good idea.

Producer: Mike Wendling.

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