![]() ![]() ![]() It’s not clear, you could argue, why Ffion didn’t delete the parts of her memory in which Jonas appeared (it’s made clear elsewhere in the episode that it’s possible to do this) – it’s likely, I suppose, that she cherished those memories too much to get rid of them. If we had access to the same perfect catalogue of memories, wouldn’t we end up just as paranoid as Liam? As useful as it would be to have instant recall over things like where we parked the car after a busy shopping trip, or the exact date the battle of Stalingrad ended for a history exam, the way our memories fade over time may, in some cases, be a good thing. Given our current appetite for sharing carefully selected chunks of our personal lives on the Internet, the idea of people in the future recording and sharing memories isn’t too much of a stretch, and the way the episode depicts it is quite convincing, and extremely eerie. Liam’s memory recorder allows him to scratch an itch that, for the rest of us, is thankfully out of reach.Īs is often the case in science fiction, The Entire History Of You explores the pitfalls of future technology. Ffi insists that her fling with Jonas is ancient history, but Liam begins to obsess over his memories, searching through them for evidence of an affair – the bat of a loving eyelid towards Jonas, perhaps, or the unintentionally enthusiastic laugh over a lame joke. ![]()
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