Episode 166: Total Recall (Ted Chiang's "The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling")
Very Bad Wizards
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Is There a Parallel Story About Writing Technology?
The story tells two parallel stories about what happens when this new technology is introduced. It's narrated by an unnamed journalist who initially wanted to write an article about the new technology and describe his misgivings about it. The other story takes place in 1941 about a tribe with a longstanding oral tradition that comes under pressure When a missionary comes named Mosby and introduces the main character, Jijingi, to the art of writing.
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