Deadwood Is Not Deadwood, but It's Deadwood

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"The best thing about it from my point of view already is that it's got people talking about deadwood," he said. "I envy people who haven't, and I'm glad that it's being talked about again." He says the performances are better than any other on TV.

Memory is highly selective and often inaccurate. But what if we had an easily searchable video record of all our experiences and interactions? How would that affect our relationships? What would it reveal about our characters and our sense of who we are? Is there a kind of truth that can’t be determined by perfect objectivity? David and Tamler dive deep into Ted Chiang’s amazingly rich and poignant short story “The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling” which explores how new technologies shape individual and group identities.

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