United States, Journalist 1962
Gary Wolf is an American writer, contributing editor at America's Wired magazine, and co-founder of the Quantified Self.
Also known as Writer, Editor
Every day the choristers of the social web chirp their advice about openness and trust; craigslist follows none of it, and every day it grows.
The problem of forgetting might not torment us so much if we could only convince ourselves that remembering isn't important. Perhaps the things we learn - words, dates, formulas, historical and biographical details - don't really matter. Facts can be looked up. That's what the Internet is for.
Humans make errors. We make errors of fact and errors of judgment. We have blind spots in our field of vision and gaps in our stream of attention. Sometimes we can't even answer the simplest questions.
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