We Can Remember It For You….

• October
• 31

12:06 am The Voice of the Planet

Crime evolves to use the technology available to it, nowhere else is this more readily apparent than in the streets and skyline of our planet.  A new type of invasive assault is taking place, with dozens of new occurrences being reported each day and the numbers are increasing.  Dubbed IME, Intrusive Memory Extraction, this ‘digital raping’ of human memories is a cause for real concern amongst the highs and lows of our society.

Since ebrain cyberisation was introduced, the enigma of the human brain has been unlocked and memories can now be stored, organised and sorted as easily as files on a computer directory to those with the appropriate cybernetic implants.  With this ease of access also comes ease of removal.

Technology for memory implantation and manipulation has been available since the first cybernetic brain implants and many organisations have used this technology for the protection of information or for the protection of individuals, even going so far as to plant false memories or personalities to carry out various activities.  Corporate espionage and intelligence organisations are just two obvious uses.  Technology with such attractive uses rarely stays secret for long and now various criminal elements are getting hold of the technology and now the public are being targeted for perhaps the most valuable assets they have, their memories.  For some the need to remain anonymous or hidden is necessary, other people wants their enemies to forget what they’ve seen.

While the technology to transfer and overwrite memories is now freely available on the black market the software to generate false memories is affordable and available only to a few, the blackmarket software developers have found other ways to provide the data needed for the criminal syndicates to sell, they’re taking yours.

By using a portable terminal and jacking into data ports on ebrain’s, the IME software pulls out memory files like pages from a book.  Those attacked can end up with total memory loss, corruption or just small gaps depending on how effective the memory raid is.  The memories stolen are then reconstituted and edited to form new memories for clients, there’s even an emerging market for second hand memories, to allow people to have experiences they could never have.

For now, IME is being comitted for criminal purposes, with the very crime itself removing the evidence of the crime, police are finding it hard to investigate, and victim are left traumatised and sometimes incapable of living their lives.

As a once famous author wrote, so long and thanks for the memory.