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"Another reason why privacy could be just a passing fad, terrorism is going to get too good. [1997]"
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![]() When some humans gain telepathic abilities, they try to subjugate the normals. Should people with the power to determine with certainty the contents of your mind also have the political power to control you and control society?
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"The teeps can't file a framed report on a man whose mind is opaque to probes... The teeps have to get the hoods off... If a man is innocent why shouldn't he want his mind probed? The bill makes wearing a probe shield a felony."
"Teeps" are telepathic humans.
I can find quotes for the opposite idea - see the entry for the Control Helmet from a 1938 story by Edmund Hamilton.
Compare to the Tin Foil Hat (Tin Pulpit) from The Tissue-Culture King (1927) by Julian Huxley, which is apparently the original story from which the "tin foil hat" idea is taken. See also the thought screen helmet from Gray Lensman (1942) by E.E. 'Doc' Smith Comment/Join this discussion ( 0 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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