The Psychology of the Challenger Disaster

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The author has a vivid memory of the space shuttle Challenger disaster. He says he can totally see rewriting his own memory and having just like in those studies, all of the confidence that I did or said something and being completely wrong. "I realized he's like three years into teaching this that I was off by an entire year"

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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