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iCloud, Google Drive, and OneDrive make digital storage automatic. People begin to trust corporations with photos, messages, and location histories. -
Smartphones begin tracking not only app usage but also habits, locations, and behavioral patterns. Consumers now accept automated insights into their lives as typical behavior. This blurs the line between convenience and surveillance. -
People carry around wearable devices that record things like steps, heartrates, and mood. Life starts to shape around only data. People don't need to track this data themselves because they can reference it later in different technology. -
EEG headbands are marketed to focus improvement in sleep optimization, which sell widely. Data from brainwave patterns becomes a new category of personal information for tech companies to collect. -
Companies begin offering detailed memory visualizations that reconstruct experiences based on years of passive data collection. Users love the nostalgia features, unaware the same data is being resold to advertisers. -
Early startups release prototypes that record and replay short-term visual memories. It’s marketed as a productivity tool for students and journalists. -
Apple and NeuroLink merge technologies to introduce CloudMind, the world’s first memory storage subscription. -
CloudMind launches the first full subscription for memory storage, allowing users to upload selected memories to external servers to recall later. Premium subscriptions offer enhanced clarity and different features. -
Certain industries require workers to maintain accessible memory logs for the company to view to check safety and accountability. The practice becomes normalized, collapsing the boundary between personal thought and workplace property. -
National security protocols expand to include memory checks during travel, legal proceedings, and licensing. Officials frame it as a harmless extension of existing digital identity verification. -
People are now fully reliant on this technology. This makes social norms shift; forgetting becomes associated with irresponsibility, while active memory plans are marketed as essential to success.