Future Tense Newsletter: Would You Use Facebook's New Dating App?

Future Tense is a partnership of Slate, New America, and Arizona State University that examines emerging technologies, public policy, and society. We closed out April with another installment of Future Tense Fiction: a new story by Mark Oshiro that explores the potential of technology to transfer memories between people--and what a memory means without context. Once you've had a chance to grab some tissues, read a response from philosophers Jenelle Salisbury and Susan Schneider, who study the nature of mind and memory. During its F8 developers conference on Tuesday, Facebook announced it would finally offer its own memory-erasing tool in the form a button that allows users to delete the information the company has collected about them through their online browsing. That could be a big step in the right direction toward winning back consumers' trust.