Your insights, as always, are remarkable. In the early 2000s, I worked as a contractor at Kodak on the Kodak EasyShare project, tasked with “skinning” its UI to give it a sleek, futuristic look. At the time, Kodak—once the trusted guardian of our memories—was desperately trying to transform an entire analog industry into its digital future. But the effort came too late. The inertia of a giant, combined with the speed of change, was simply too much to overcome. Kodak filed for bankruptcy in 2008, and what remains now feels almost ghostly. None of the digital cameras we worked on still function—the software they relied on is obsolete, the printers they supported have been forgotten, and EasyShare itself won’t run on modern operating systems. Even the tools that once promised to preserve our memories have been lost to time. It’s as if those memories, too, have faded away.