Lost Past and Future Crime
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[Science fiction imagination + Japanese reasoning + memory trick + digital immortality] When all mankind loses its collective memory, will the original "I" still exist? One day, Rino, a female high school student, was horrified to find that her memory had become intermittent. She could not even remember what happened ten minutes ago. What's even more frightening is that this sudden "great forgetfulness" is erupting on a large scale around the world. Rino's relatives, friends, TV news anchors, and staff from all walks of life have all shown the same symptoms. The world has fallen into chaos, and human civilization is in danger. People call this symptom - anterograde amnesia, and the first people to develop this symptom spontaneously established the "Pioneer" organization. They worked hard to seek self-rescue, and finally invented an "external memory device" to store memories in memory strips, which can be inserted and removed from the body at any time. Since then, human civilization has entered a new era in which memory and soul are separated. Newly born humans will have a card slot placed on their body to access the memory strip. The birth of the memory strip also makes the human brain's "memory ability" stronger and its "processing ability" more efficient. But all the problems that followed began to appear... Tetsuji and Chisako, who were about to go on a blind date, mistakenly took each other's memory strips, accidentally accessed each other's memories and learned everything about each other and were "forced" to get married; in order to let his son get into the ideal university, Ishida rented the memory strips of top student Toshiya. After the incident, he destroyed Toshiya's body, just to save his son. Completely possessing the memory of the top student; the spiritualist rented out his body to give the deceased's memory a temporary shelter, but the selfish couple was unwilling to return the body, causing his memory to die... This book continues Taizo Kobayashi's previous style, adopting the assumption that "personality only depends on memory and not on the brain itself", leading to an absurd human drama.
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