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Our understanding of history has always been predicated on the stories of others and has thus been curated over the years by human memory. However, because of the inherent malleability in our memories, we often find distortions, mis-beliefs in our memories that diverge from the truth. Moreover, since we have no ability to peek into “universal truth,” we begin to have collective false memories that we share as a society. This pathway motivated us to explore what might feed into false collective memory. In this current day, technology provides new layers of complexity to collective memory. We see it in the false news shared on social media, or through the interpretation of data collected. These things are shaping the way we remember current events and the way we will talk about them in the future. What path are we on when we are presented with fake news constantly? What path are we on where companies have the power to “curate the public library we conjure into existence every day, [where] they can and do delete it at a whim?” (Hill). What if people took more agency over history they remember? This exhibit explores when citizens began to rely less on the histories prescribed to us by the government, or corporations, and more on the verification of shared memories by the collective mass. Thus, we present to you the world of the Actualities Coalition. In our future world, a collective of citizen has risen to the task of verifying truth, bringing about a new era of fact in history. The Coalition has curated this exhibit to shed light on how we, as a society, have progressed from the false news of 2018 to the search of pure truth in 2045.


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