They said installing it was an act of faith. The installer asked only one permission it had no right to request: to remember. Users who accepted woke to devices that dreamed. A ten-year-old laptop began to hum with a low, precise joy; its cooling fan synchronized to an unheard rhythm. A battered joystick reported back with gestures too intimate for its age—vibrations that encoded half-remembered childhood games. Screens gained a third dimension, not spatial but temporal: notifications from moments you’d never lived, choices you hadn’t made.