Thoughts

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Driving home from Port Hope this afternoon offered me an opportunity to hear some compelling programming on CBC Radio 2. Both books mentioned here sound like interesting reading.

Spark rebroadcast an interview with Viktor Mayer-Schönberger (full interview and transcript), author of Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age. He writes: "Perfect, comprehensive digital memory denies human beings the ability to grow, to change, and to evolve over time. That is deeply worrying."

Tapestry featured Bob Kull, who spent a year in utter isolation on a small island off the coast of Chile and subsequently wrote Solitude: Seeking Wisdom In Extremes. He gave a thoughtful, candid interview, and the book sounds like a challenging voyage of enlightenment.