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Correcting the source alone may be too slow if other systems keep using yesterday's copy. FactBrake makes the list because it addresses the new shape of the harm: not a bad database row, but a spreading operational failure. Its observable finish is a corrected source, retested decisions and named unresolved owners.", "why2031Not2026": "People dispute records provider by provider today. This becomes a genuinely future-native service if status facts propagate automatically across work, learning, finance and services faster than normal correction can reach every receiver.", "worldShifts": [ { "shift": "In 2031, enclosed providers can reuse status and behaviour records across work, learning, finance, and service decisions.", "causalChain": [ "A source or matching error enters a shared decision network.", "Several operators reuse it before the person can identify the source.", "A dispute marker pauses non-essential effects and triggers human source review.", "Propagation and decision retests show whether correction actually restored access." ], "basis": "design-inference", "evidenceIds": [], "worldIds": [ "W03" ], "evidenceLimit": "The sources support present conditions and directional pressures. 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