6.30.25: MemoryFilter™

Tired of your ex ruining your playlist? MemoryFilter™ syncs to your neural cloud and removes associations from songs, places, faces, anything. Now your song is just a song. The breakup is gone, but so is the thrill. Soon, people were overusing it—scrubbing everything. Fewer memories, fewer triggers. One guy deleted every sadness ever. He stopped recognizing empathy. A woman erased pain, then forgot her own children. Now the company sells a disclaimer: “Emotions are not bugs. They’re features.” But sales keep climbing. People would rather feel nothing than feel anything bad. In the end, forgetting is the most addictive drug.