{"id":9441,"date":"2023-03-28T05:40:44","date_gmt":"2023-03-28T03:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/28\/our-universe-was-lost-for-ever-what-happens-when-a-tech-glitch-erases-your-memories\/"},"modified":"2023-03-28T05:40:44","modified_gmt":"2023-03-28T03:40:44","slug":"our-universe-was-lost-for-ever-what-happens-when-a-tech-glitch-erases-your-memories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/28\/our-universe-was-lost-for-ever-what-happens-when-a-tech-glitch-erases-your-memories\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Our universe was lost for ever\u2019: what happens when a tech glitch erases your memories?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Photos, emails, playlists: our phones and computers have become hosts for our pasts. What happens when the backups fail?<\/p>\n<p>No matter how much our computers assure us they\u2019re 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 \u2013 from the college essay that disappeared minutes before the due date to an iPhone update that lost years of photographs.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2023\/mar\/27\/digital-loss-photos-backup-deleted-memory\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/38320886f30c51a55c80a09e98e54e964edce328\/0_90_1800_1080\/master\/1800.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=53b7dcd62352b7eefff2cc8a2461309d\" title=\"\u2018Our universe was lost for ever\u2019: 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?<br \/>\nNo matter how much our computers assure us they\u2019re 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 \u2013 from the college essay that disappeared minutes before the due date to an iPhone update that lost years of photographs. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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\u2019re 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 &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/28\/our-universe-was-lost-for-ever-what-happens-when-a-tech-glitch-erases-your-memories\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018Our universe was lost for ever\u2019: what happens when a tech glitch erases your memories?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":9442,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9441"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}