Re: This one predicted practical telepathy

Charles Packer  <mailbox@cpacker.org> wrote:

On Tue, 8 Apr 2025 11:09:34 -0400 (EDT), Scott Dorsey wrote:
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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 )
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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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You read the whole thing? I confess I skimmed it looking for the
"good parts" -- the passages about the telepathy apparatus.

I confess that I was bored and waiting for a computer to finish processing.
It was not exactly fine prose, but it was a step up from Gernsback's.
--scott
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"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."