The Web Means the End of Forgetting

The digital age is facing its first existential crisis: the impossibility of erasing your posted past and moving on.

An old new yorker cartoon has it. "On the internet, no one knows you're a dog."

A name change will do it. Easier for women than men but still perfectly possible.

The court record is public but there is no pointer. You should know this better than most. Of course one loses all of the past or none of it.