Borges would roll in his grave at yet another desecration of 'Funes the Memorious'; the point was not that a good memory somehow is a curse.<p>Borges was, yet again, revisiting his favorite theme of 'the map and the territory': that abstraction is useful and fundamentally different from the raw data/reality. A map is good insofar as it is <i>unfaithful</i> and the more faithful the map, the less useful & mappy it is.<p>This, of course, has nothing to do with the author's thesis, which I regard as being about as sound as the argument that everyone ought to die at 70 years because to live longer or nigh forever would render life meaningless.
Perfect memory & recall seems to be a long-running theme in many near and far-future Sci-Fi books...<p>I commented to my girlfriend the other day that if I was ever given the option to have it I would refuse. An example: my cat died at the start of the year, a thoroughly heartbreaking occurrence. If I had perfect recall of that event, including my emotional state at the time, I think I would be emotionally and mentally crippled for the rest of my life...