In this part you will identify what digital ghosts haunt you. There are 5 tasks, spread out over 2 weeks. With the help of a note taking device, you are going to watch your phone and how you interact with it to list your digital possessions, identify which of them are haunting you. With this awareness, you will then try to understand how the machine remembers your memories. Go to tasks
In this part, there are 4 tasks. You will use the existing technology option to feel a temporary sense of control of your digital memories. You also learn ways to accumulate less for your future self. By inspecting the memories that are getting accumulated for you, you will understand how much of it needs to have permanence. Go to tasks
Once you have identified the digital memories that are haunting you and tried the existing tools for forgetting, it is time to make a decision. Do you want it to remain frozen and haunt you forever ? Or do you want to watch it change into a different memory and leave a different aftertaste? Or would you like to watch it rot and die like many things in nature? This section guides you through Decay, an experimental way of digital erasure I have developed. It has 1 task and I promise it is fun. Go to Decay