Relationships - Is There a Way to Get Over a Fight?

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CNN's John Sutter talks about the technology that lets people search their life logs. He says it can be a terrible thing to remember every detail of an argument, but sometimes we think we want it. But he also points out there is no way to prove who's right and who's wrong when you're arguing over text messages.

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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