‘Our universe was lost for ever’: what happens when a tech glitch erases your memories?

‘Our universe was lost for ever’: what happens when a tech glitch erases your memories?

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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