The New Technology That Allows You to Search Through Your Life Logs

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A journalist is trying to research this new technology that allows you to search through your life logs. He talks about his daughter, Nicole, who as the story goes, her mother, his wife left them at some point during her childhood. And he's sort of patting himself on the back for having made it through these difficult times and being a good father. When I read it, I was like, oh, man, that would be fucking heart broke,. As somebody who has been in not dissimilar position.

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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