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From: kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written
Subject: Re: This one predicted practical telepathy
Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2025 11:06:22 -0400 (EDT)
Organization: Former users of Netcom shell (1989-2000)
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Charles Packer  <mailbox@cpacker.org> wrote:
>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.
>> 
>> -.. .-. .. -. -.-   -.-. --- -.-. .- -.-. --- .-.. .-
>
>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
-- 
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."