I’ve just found these trailers from Channel 4 on YouTube for episode 1 of Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams, ‘The Hood Maker. This is set in a dystopian Britain where telepaths – Teeps – are used to monitor the thoughts of the population.
It looks really good, and I’m really looking forward to seeing it!
As for dictatorial governments monitoring people’s thoughts, Pat Mills, one of the writers for 2000 AD, used it in Nemesis the Warlock and the ABC Warriors. In Nemesis the Warlock, Torquemada and his terminators, a brutal military religious order, who had imposed a genocidally racist dictatorship on Earth in the far future, monitored the poplation’s thoughts mechanically. And there was a story in the ABC Warriors where another future dictatorship, this time on Mars, also used mechanical devices to keep their people in order.
As various mechanisms are being developed to ‘read’ minds, albeit simply to use nerve impulses from the brain to operate various systems, and some IT engineers are talking about developing artificial telepathy, this particular dystopian idea may not be entirely fantasy after all.
Tags: 'Nemesis the Warlock', 2000 AD, ABC Warriors, AI, Artificial Telepathy, Computers, Mars, Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams, telepathy
September 13, 2017 at 3:57 pm |
you wonder if people who vote tory have been subject to secret brain bypass #
September 13, 2017 at 6:05 pm |
I think they just believe what they read in the paper, Vondreassen. And get taken in with the hatred of ‘scroungers’ that the Tories whip up to distract everyone.
November 12, 2017 at 9:32 pm
They judge them without knowing the real things
September 13, 2017 at 3:57 pm |
I’ll a big fan of Philip K Dick. My favourite novel of his is Flow My Tears The Policeman Said. Human Is is my favourite short story of his, which is one of the episodes of this series.
September 13, 2017 at 6:06 pm |
I haven’t read those. I’ve read ‘Clans of the Alphane Moon’, ‘Now Wait For Last Year’, and the short story, ‘Beyond Lies the Wub’.
November 12, 2017 at 9:23 pm |
It was an interesting novel to see how normals react with the telepaths