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For the vast majority of human history, forgetting was the default state and remembering was the achievement. Social life was governed by the natural decay of memory, which allowed individuals to outlive their past errors through genuine transformation. Digital technology has inverted this ecology: perfect, permanent, and instantly retrievable memory is now the default.

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