Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!panix!.POSTED.2602:f977:0:1::2!not-for-mail 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) Message-ID: References: Injection-Info: reader1.panix.com; posting-host="2602:f977:0:1::2"; logging-data="29529"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@panix.com" Bytes: 1966 Lines: 26 Charles Packer wrote: >On Tue, 8 Apr 2025 11:09:34 -0400 (EDT), Scott Dorsey wrote: > >> Charles Packer 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."