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"We follow the scientists around and look over their shoulders. They're watching their feet: provable mistakes are bad for them. We're looking as far ahead as we can, and we don't get penalized for mistakes."
- Larry Niven
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| Telepathic Transmitter (Telep-transmitter) | ||
| A device using living alien tissue to transmit your thoughts. |
It's not easy to keep the memories straight in the story; fortunately, the police can read your thoughts.
| "You remember," the policeman said, "your trip to Mars. We know all your actions today and all your thoughts - in particular your very important thoughts on the trip home from Rekal, Incorporated." He explained, "We have a telep-transmitter wired within your skull; it keeps us constantly informed."
A telepathic transmitter; use of a living plasma that had been discovered on Luna. He shuddered with self-aversion. The thing lived inside him, within his own brain, feeding, listening, feeding. But the Interplan police used them; that had come out even in the homeopapes. So this was probably true, dismal as it was. |
| Technovelgy from We Can Remember It For You Wholesale,
by Philip K. Dick. Published by Fantasy and SF in 1966 Additional resources -
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Dick was fascinated with the idea of using a living creature as part of a device that connected with the mind; see his thoughts on the swibble from his 1955 story Service Call.
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