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Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Charles Packer <mailbox@cpacker.org> Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: This one predicted practical telepathy Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2025 07:40:12 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 14 Message-ID: <pan$42aa3$14e2cd08$f97212bd$711032ab@cpacker.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2025 09:40:12 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="a9131bfa74351b5c9d2a3e6ae25443dd"; logging-data="1842519"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+74z3LF2a96cgynlmEvynE" User-Agent: Pan/0.158 (Avdiivka; ) Cancel-Lock: sha1:a8nMkcz+Gr6xd14SApUaCNinr60= Bytes: 1508 Belated thanks to Ahasuerus for the ISFDB table of works tagged telepathy. If H G Wells's "The World Set Free" (1914) predicted atomic bombs, then "The Cry From the Ether" by Aladra Septama (1929) 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.