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From: kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey)
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Subject: Re: This one predicted practical telepathy
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2025 11:09:34 -0400 (EDT)
Organization: Former users of Netcom shell (1989-2000)
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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 )
>
>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
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"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."