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Future Tense

Memory Mines

Who owns your ghost cache when the cloud remembers everything you forgot

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A Z Mackay
Feb 12, 2025
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Google remembers October 14th, 2019. You don’t.

Your phone’s location history places you at a coffee shop at 8:47 AM, a medical building at 10:23 AM (the dermatologist, not the one you’re thinking of), and a twenty-three-minute stop at an address you no longer recognize. Your email archive holds a thread about a project you’ve completely forgotten, popul…

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