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For those that have not seen it, Black Mirror is British Science Fiction TV series that artfully demonstrates the unanticipated consequences and inherent dangers of new technologies on modern society. This is the 3rd episode of the first series, called "The Entire History of You", where most people have electronic "grains" recording everything they do, see, or hear, and allowing them to play back their memories in front of their eyes or on a screen. Everyday life is automatically recorded and may be replayed at any time or shown to others, unless it is deleted which leaves a visible gap for that period, so people can keep secrets without having to tell others or if a gap is shown it indicates removal of controversial info. The main character suspects that his W is having an affair by observing her interactions at a dinner party with friends and the OM. Upon returning home they have an argument, and because of the recording capability, the H stays up all night analyzing the interactions at dinner and afterwards. He suspects there is something serious going on.
He continues to question his W, and she goes thru the classic cheater script:
(1) omitting - she never named the man with whom she was intimate with before they were married, so the husband didn't know that he was in her circle of friends at the dinner party
(2) rug sweep/trickle truth - at first saying the pre-marital affair only lasted a week while on holiday abroad, then later a month, then later it was 6 months in their current community and they have remained friends, even after her subsequent marriage and the birth of a child
The husband confronts the OM, and forces him to delete his numerous recorded files of his W. He noticed the date stamp and background of one of the files as being exactly the time period the baby was conceived, and was recorded in his marital bedroom. He goes home and confronts his W and asks her if the baby is his. W admits to sleeping with the OM during a 5 day period when the couple had a fight and separated briefly, 9 months before birth. They have a physical fight when the W tries to delete the files. She continues with her denial of the OMs paternity, so the H forces her physically to show him the recording. It appears that OM may be the father.
This show made me trigger based our situation of raising our son from birth, while knowing that he is not my biological child. I knew this and accepted it before I agreed to get married 20+ yrs ago. To this day we do not know the identity of my son's bio Dad, in case we have a medical/genetic situation where it is needed.
And having to go thru numerous situations where my W either omitted information or rug swept pertinent details regarding some of her post-marriage relationships made me truly wish that this technology was available back then. Imagine how much easier it would have been to observe the recording directly instead of having to rely on an interpretation by another party-who may be trying to "protect me" from the hurtful truth.
For those that have not seen it, Black Mirror is British Science Fiction TV series that artfully demonstrates the unanticipated consequences and inherent dangers of new technologies on modern society. This is the 3rd episode of the first series, called "The Entire History of You", where most people have electronic "grains" recording everything they do, see, or hear, and allowing them to play back their memories in front of their eyes or on a screen. Everyday life is automatically recorded and may be replayed at any time or shown to others, unless it is deleted which leaves a visible gap for that period, so people can keep secrets without having to tell others or if a gap is shown it indicates removal of controversial info. The main character suspects that his W is having an affair by observing her interactions at a dinner party with friends and the OM. Upon returning home they have an argument, and because of the recording capability, the H stays up all night analyzing the interactions at dinner and afterwards. He suspects there is something serious going on.
He continues to question his W, and she goes thru the classic cheater script:
(1) omitting - she never named the man with whom she was intimate with before they were married, so the husband didn't know that he was in her circle of friends at the dinner party
(2) rug sweep/trickle truth - at first saying the pre-marital affair only lasted a week while on holiday abroad, then later a month, then later it was 6 months in their current community and they have remained friends, even after her subsequent marriage and the birth of a child
The husband confronts the OM, and forces him to delete his numerous recorded files of his W. He noticed the date stamp and background of one of the files as being exactly the time period the baby was conceived, and was recorded in his marital bedroom. He goes home and confronts his W and asks her if the baby is his. W admits to sleeping with the OM during a 5 day period when the couple had a fight and separated briefly, 9 months before birth. They have a physical fight when the W tries to delete the files. She continues with her denial of the OMs paternity, so the H forces her physically to show him the recording. It appears that OM may be the father.
This show made me trigger based our situation of raising our son from birth, while knowing that he is not my biological child. I knew this and accepted it before I agreed to get married 20+ yrs ago. To this day we do not know the identity of my son's bio Dad, in case we have a medical/genetic situation where it is needed.
And having to go thru numerous situations where my W either omitted information or rug swept pertinent details regarding some of her post-marriage relationships made me truly wish that this technology was available back then. Imagine how much easier it would have been to observe the recording directly instead of having to rely on an interpretation by another party-who may be trying to "protect me" from the hurtful truth.