Comments on: Between William Gibson and William Faulkner (aka all worlds at once) http://cultureby.com/2008/05/between-william.html This Blog Sits At the Intersection of Anthropology and Economics Wed, 08 Feb 2012 08:43:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Drew Breunig http://cultureby.com/2008/05/between-william.html/comment-page-1#comment-1699 Drew Breunig Wed, 28 May 2008 12:52:18 +0000 http://localhost/wp_culture/?p=277#comment-1699 Faulkner's pasts have a weird twist in this digital world, as our past digital selves simply refuse to disappear. Social networks, Google, and other aggregators make memory and self searchable and on-demand. I can see who you were many yesterdays ago with only the slightest effort. The problem has evolved to such a degree that several companies (Reputation Defender, Visible Technologies) are offering digital persona management and personal SEO, to clean up your online profile and protect against snoopy HR and college admission officers. The past refuses to leave and problems and benefits emerge. To serve each, new industries are being defined. Faulkner’s pasts have a weird twist in this digital world, as our past digital selves simply refuse to disappear. Social networks, Google, and other aggregators make memory and self searchable and on-demand. I can see who you were many yesterdays ago with only the slightest effort.

The problem has evolved to such a degree that several companies (Reputation Defender, Visible Technologies) are offering digital persona management and personal SEO, to clean up your online profile and protect against snoopy HR and college admission officers.

The past refuses to leave and problems and benefits emerge. To serve each, new industries are being defined.

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