<P> "The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling" is a science fiction story by American writer Ted Chiang . It was first published in 2013 in Subterranean Press . </P> <P> In the near future, a journalist observes how his daughter is affected by "Remem", a form of lifelogging whose advanced search algorithms effectively grant its users eidetic memory of everything that ever happened to them, and the ability to perfectly and objectively share those memories . In a parallel narrative strand, a Tiv man is one of the first of his people to learn to read and write, and discovers that this may not be compatible with oral tradition . </P>

The truth of fact the truth of feeling by ted chiang