I Can't, I'm Not Shy Melon Twist

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"I love the way that he says, Zara, I'm going to go to some of these fights. My relationship with Nicole, his daughter felt strong enough now for me to safely revisit the fights we'd had when she was young." "The words were just as I remembered them, but it wasn't Nicole saying them. It was me," said a character in this book.

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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