Re: This one predicted practical telepathy

On Tue, 8 Apr 2025 11:09:34 -0400 (EDT), Scott Dorsey wrote:

Charles Packer  <mailbox@cpacker.org> wrote:

https://archive.org/details/Amazing_Stories_Quarterly_v02n02_1929-
Spring_slpn/page/n103/mode/1up (or https://tinyurl.com/bp5dwkm4 )
>
is my candidate for having predicted sending information to the human
brain remotely by radio waves if it ever comes to pass. The inventor
therein thinks through the issues of selectivity and of what kinds of
content could be meaningfully transmitted.

 
I just read this story and find it foolish.  If this were actually
possible, it would immediately be taken over by advertising people
beaming spam thoughts into everyone's head.  The author is extremely
optimistic about how such a technology would be used.
 
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--scott

You read the whole thing? I confess I skimmed it looking for the
"good parts" -- the passages about the telepathy apparatus.
A story by a Russian came out about the same time
https://zapatopi.net/blog/?
post=201506038860.alexander_belyaevs_the_lord_of_the_world
(or https://tinyurl.com/bp52jj8p )
in which the telepathic device did indeed cause mayhem. The
appearance of these two stories at the same time and their sort
of mirror image outcomes I think may be significant. Stay tuned.