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Memory Bankruptcy; the curse of corpo preorders and our willing descent into oblivion

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“Hey sorry I forgot this task, it slipped from my mind,” a perfectly normal occurrence in day-to-day life but when your computer forgets a piece of information then it becomes a DEFCON 1 situation. Your computer also has the same sort of architecture your brain uses. A signal is received, your brain searches for instructions and stores some information vital for the time being as temporary memory, then a response where you perform an action and maybe you store the action in your doubtful permanent memory. Computers work the same where some memory is volatile, as in it is lost when power is switched off, and some is non-volatile, remains even after power loss. Non-volatile memory is your solid-state drives (SSD), hard disk drives (HDD), CDs, pen drives, and SD cards. Volatile memory mostly consists of Random Access Memory (RAM). RAM is your temporary memory that is used during the process and forgotten afterward. For the purposes of this article there is no need to go into detailed work...