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"This is a predictive tool I've used: There are goals we've sought for ten thousand years, and we'll go on seeking them. Instant transport and travel, immortality (or at least longevity and miracle cures.), instant learning …"
- Larry Niven
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| Brain Erasure | ||
| Deleting selected knowledge from the brain using electrical impulses. |
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| "... The scanner can erase this new-found knowledge from the brain, by using a neutralizing electronic impulse. Then the student can learn entirely new subjects." |
| From The Knowledge Machine,
by Edmond Hamilton. Published by Thrilling Wonder Stories in 1948 Additional resources -
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Compare to erased memories from Philip K. Dick's 1966 story We Can Remember It For You Wholesale.
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