“Every young person one day will be entitled automatically to change his or her name on reaching adulthood in order to disown youthful hijinks stored on their friends’ social media sites…”
Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google
This has been quoted in RWW and Gawker—in a derisive way. One of the follow ups: “I don’t believe society understands what happens when everything is available, knowable and recorded by everyone all the time… I mean we really have to think about these things as a society.”
This is not ridiculous.
