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Launch Day: January 2030
Horizon:Next 5 Years
Polarity:Mixed/Knife-edge

Launch Day: January 2030

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January 1, 2030

Happy New Year! 🎉

Also: First commercial neural lace implants available today.

First quantum cloud services online.

First fusion plants operational.

The future is here. Whether we're ready or not.

(Narrator: We were not ready.)

January 15, 2030

Two weeks into public launch.

47,000 neural lace sign-ups (waiting list: 2.4M)

Quantum cloud: 10,000 enterprise customers

Fusion plants: Powering 23 cities

Everything working as designed.

...mostly.

January 28, 2030

First bug reports coming in.

Nothing critical. Yet.

But watching real users interact with tech we built in a lab...

It's different when consequences are real.

Sleep has been difficult.

Launch day: Celebration + dread.

We built the future.

Now we had to live in it.

— Recovered from personal archive, 2030

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