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Paranormal Adept
Default Re: Whitley Strieber's next book Quote Originally Posted by mike View Post A species that has mastered this technology may well have discarded such crude and ambigious methods like writting and speaking in favour of direct mental transfer. Both technologically and more importantly socially we are not ready to communicate at this level. You're not kidding. It would be a revolution. Imagine the implications for people planning crime and disorder. Imagine people's 'inappropriate' thoughts open to outside access. We'd need to have a completely different type of society.
The bandwidth afforded for interpersonal communication by our animal senses seems quite narrow. This, and ever increasing concentrations of power available to a small numbers of people (like some maniac with a suitcase nuke) is the prickly arrangement we presently have with nature. Trading our individuality for survival may be yet another.