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A comment on Total Recall: The Woman Who Can't Forget.

Re:Total Recall: The Woman Who Can't Forget by gojomo on Monday April 13, 2009 @11:04PM (#560920)
Previously on Ms. Price:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=373529

And similarly:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=192454

And necessarily:

"Funes, The Memorious" by Jorge Luis Borges

http://io.uwinnipeg.ca/~morton/bigidea/funes.txt

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Re:Total Recall: The Woman Who Can't Forget by mahmud on Monday April 13, 2009 @11:08PM (#560926)
I see you don't forget URLs.
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Re:Total Recall: The Woman Who Can't Forget by silentOpen on Tuesday April 14, 2009 @01:21AM (#561042)
The Internet never forgets. Where we once had oral retellings of epic sagas, we now have synthesis of radical new ideas. Humans are extraordinarily adaptable machines. We've now built a ubiquitous information retrieval system and it will only get better.

If you could trade memory for creativity, would you?

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