You Should Have Caught That
Amazon's Bee and other memory wearables promise to catch stray commitments, but their deeper cost may be turning ordinary forgetting into proof that someone should have remembered.
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The Room Someone Is Looking Through
Home robots may promise chores done for you, but their first bargain is stranger: a camera, memory, and a remote person learning the private choreography of the house.
What the Light Was For
Always-aware AI glasses promise better memory, but the darker bargain is what they take from bystanders: notice, refusal, and the ordinary mercy of fading from a stranger's mind.
The Meeting Grew a Memory
AI notetakers can make meetings fairer by giving rooms a record, but the same memory raises the cost of unfinished, candid speech.