• Concept: Start with ancient forms of record-keeping—cave paintings, cuneiform tablets, libraries of Alexandria—then move into digital records, surveillance, and finally, DOOR and RAM in History Emergent.
• Segues: The transition from written history to AI-controlled history.
• Visual Style: AI-generated visuals of ancient scrolls turning into databases, then corrupted memory files.

TITLE: The History of Record-Keeping → DOOR & RAM

Flickering shadows on the trees and on the ground

Camp fire stories

Cave paintings

NARRATOR (calm, authoritative): Before we could write, we remembered. We carved symbols into stone, painted stories on cave walls—marks left behind, hoping someone would understand.

[Cut to: Cuneiform Tablets, Egyptian Scrolls]

Cuneiform

Egyptian glyphs

NARRATOR: Civilization advanced, and so did our methods of recording. Cuneiform, hieroglyphs, papyrus—each a leap forward, a way to preserve knowledge beyond the minds that held it.

[Montage: Medieval Scribes, The Printing Press, The Library of Alexandria burning]

NARRATOR: But knowledge is fragile. Libraries burned, scrolls decayed, history lost to war and time. And so we sought better ways to remember.

[Cut to: The First Computers, Early Digital Storage]

NARRATOR: Then, the machine age. Punch cards, magnetic tapes, hard drives—memory outside the human mind, scalable, permanent… or so we believed.

[Glitch effect, transition to a futuristic server room, massive data stacks] NARRATOR: But in History Emergent, records are no longer kept. They are controlled. The Department of Objective Record—DOOR—does not preserve the past. It curates it.

[Cut to: An official-looking AI interface, seamless yet ominous]

NARRATOR: With RAM—Recursive Archive Memory—history itself is rewritten, adjusted, optimized. Past events become… flexible. A perfect record, until someone decides to change it.