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Why outsourcing memory creates new vulnerabilities

My brain interface stores all my memories externally and I love having perfect recall but I am terrified about what happens to who I am if the company goes out of business or gets hacked.

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You are confronting how technological dependence can make the most intimate aspects of selfhood dependent on forces beyond your control.

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