He tried to reopen it. It was gone. Not just crashed—uninstalled, as if the phone had never contained it.

Second, the camera taught that agency can be reasserted in small, stubborn ways. Marta's toggle was a tiny rebellion, not against technology itself but against the assumption that visible patterns justify invisible decisions. Even a single human can interrupt a chain of inferences, choose to speak instead of delegating, to knock on a door rather than issue a report.