Holy cow, I can't remember much about my life, but thanks to digital photography, I do have a section of it I can recall the important events from. I never considered that having a perfect memory could be a curse.

Thanks for sharing this with us.

I wish my memory was better... but after reading that, I'm sure glad it's not that good. Really fascinating read, went quite well with my morning cup of coffee. :)

There’s a short story by Ted Chiang called “The Truth of Fact, The Truth of Feeling” that addresses this idea. It bounces between a story written by a future journalist about always-on retina cameras, and historical fiction about the introduction of writing to an oral-only culture.

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