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The latest Google phone promises to transform my children into perfect, smiling angels. Why would I want that?

November 20, 2023 by What if..?

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/nov/19/phone-children-google-pixel-retouch-childhood-snaps

I was a bit disappointed when there wasn’t a couch and the therapist didn’t have a cigar waiting in an ash tray. Counselling was a hard step for me and I wanted some clichés to hold onto. Still, it’s been good. Until now. I was asked to bring in photos from my childhood. I’d not looked at them for years. As they were projected I didn’t recognise myself. Smiles, laughter, family. That’s not what I “remembered”, what I felt, why I was here. I tried to explain the dissonance. If my therapist could have smiled, I bet it would have.

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