Category: Psychical Science

• The "Wireless" Mind Reading

  This theory claimed that wireless telegraphy, especially in the wake of Marconi’s successes, would eventually make thought itself audible to the state or to distant observers. It emerged in a period when radio, telepathy, psychical research, and electrical metaphors were deeply entangled. Many people treated wireless as proof that invisible transmission across distance was real, and from that point it was a short step to imagine that the mind might also broadcast messages that governments could learn to intercept.