I've always lived in the age of computers, which is to say that I've always lived with the idea of "perfect memory" It is increasingly obvious that human memor

I've always lived in the age of computers, which is to say that I've always lived with the idea of "perfect memory" It is increasingly obvious that human memory does not behave at all like computer memory. Is the idea that human memory ideally recollects events as they actually happened older than computers? How did we think about memory in the past?