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"We were essentially being shell-shocked by rapid change. That was one of the things you needed science-fiction writers for back in the Sixties, because we could cope with the future."
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| Great Ear | ||
| An electronic telepathic listening device that monitors thousands of people simultaneously. |
| Well, the Great Ear experiment is just rolling merrily along, he thought sardonically as he read:
Thought to be beyond the scope of probability, work on the first purely electronic telepathic listening device advances at a reassuring rate, officials of McMally Corporation, the designer and builder of Great Ear, as it has come to be called, said today in a press conference attended by many skeptical observers. "When Great Ear goes into operation," Munro Capp opined, "it will be capable of telepathically monitoring the thought-waves of tens of thousands of persons, and with the ability - not found among Unusuals - to unscramble the enormous flood-tides of... |
| From Our Friends From Frolix 8,
by Philip K. Dick. Published by Ace Publishing in 1970 Additional resources -
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Compare to the espionage machine, a device for monitoring the thoughts of a single individual, from No, No, Not Rogov, a 1958 cold war classic short by Cordwainer Smith.
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