‘Our universe was lost for ever’: what happens when a tech glitch erases your memories?
by Sarah Hagi, Marlowe Granados, Sloane Crosley and S from Technology | The Guardian on (#6A85F)
Photos, emails, playlists: our phones and computers have become hosts for our pasts. What happens when the backups fail?
No matter how much our computers assure us they're backing everything up to a hard drive in the sky, memory failure remains a hardwired part of our lives. Writers reflect on when a digital loss created an emotional hole - from the college essay that disappeared minutes before the due date to an iPhone update that lost years of photographs.
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