History Main / ElectronicTelepathy

* ''Podcast/{{Limetown}}: The scientists in Limetown were trying to figure out how to do this.

* In ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'' the main characters can send thought messages when they're in morph. The cube that gave them the morphing power apparently gave them this as well.

* ''Webcomic/GunnerkriggPort'': Referenced when Annie [[PaperThinDisguise impersonates]] a robot to infiltrate a robot-run administration centre and has a [[https://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=212 conversation]] with the receptionist:

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* In ''Anime/GhostInTheShell'' this is one of the many advantages of having a cyberbrain. Characters can communicate with each other without physically speaking, which is useful if you are trying to keep quiet to avoid detection or eavesdroppers. Of course, wirelessly broadcast connections are open to being spied on, so for very important conversations cyborgs sometimes directly connect to one another using cables. In one episode of ''Stand Alone Complex'', Batou and the Major even keep a conversation hidden from the Tachikomas by hiding their cyber-telepathic communication and using their actual lips to have a completely different conversation--at the same time!

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[[folder:Podcasts]]
* ''Podcast/{{Limetown}}: The scientists in Limetown were trying to figure out how to do this.

[[folder:Roleplay]]
* In ''Roleplay/DarwinsSoldiers'', Dragonstorm has an entire "thought network" which is exactly this. [[TheMole Mole]] Shelton brings some of the chips for the main characters to use.

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* In ''TabletopGame/EclipsePhase'' most people have access to the setting's internet successor via implants that make telepathy about as common as talking. The fiction notes "mesh communication" via RainbowSpeak.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Mindjammer}}'' has a whole list of "technopsi" abilities that are used through the Mindscape.

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* It's never spelled out, but this appears to be how the Martians' collective consciousness works in ''Webcomic/AMiracleOfScience'': faster-than-light communications gear (which may or may not be the same thing as the radio communication demonstrated on numerous occasions) incorporated into the [[{{Nanomachines}} nanotech]] that suffuses their bodies.
* One of the "upgrades" that CORE soldiers in ''Webcomic/{{SSDD}}'' can get.
* Relays in ''Webcomic/AlienDice'' allow this.
* One of the relatively minor characters in ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'' is from a species that evolved a natural form of this, specifically an organic radio transmitter/receiver. The one shown has a single consciousness split across two bodies, and with a little added hardware to enable communication via [[SubspaceAnsible hyperspace nodes]] his range is extended to the point where he can pilot two separate tanks simultaneously with a level of tactical co-ordination that normally only an AI can manage.
* In ''Webcomic/AGirlAndHerFed'', Agents can communicate this way via their [[BrainComputerInterface implant]].
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* ''Film/DemolitionMan'': In the future, people use this for having sex. The idea of doing it the normal way disgusts them.

Electronic Telepathy or ''e-telepathy'' is a sub-trope of {{Telepathy}}. In most cases characters using telepathic powers will do so by using some kind of supernatural force or a highly evolved biological mechanism that comes thanks to being a SufficientlyAdvancedAlien. However, in some cases a character will have no natural or supernatural telepathic ability and instead use a NeuralInterface to gain this power. In this form of telepathy, thoughts are converted from impulses in the brain (electric activity produced by neuron reaction potentials) into digital signals that can then be broadcast artificially to another e-telepath using radio waves or some other form of wireless communication. Obviously, this can lead to MentalFusion or even a HiveMind just as non-technological telepathy can.

This form of telepathy is different from others in that it does not allow MindReading, since a person must be actively transmitting a signal in order for another to receive it. However, is possible for an enterprising cyborg to "mind hack" another user of an implant and monitor their thoughts without their permission, similar to infecting a computer with spyware.

* In ''Anime/GhostInTheShell'' this is one of the many advantages of having a cyberbrain. Characters can communicate with each other without physically speaking, which is useful if you are trying to keep quiet to avoid detection or eavesdroppers. Of course, wirelessly broadcast connections are open to being spied on, so for very important conversations cyborgs sometimes directly connect to one another using cables.

* [[http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-08-colleague-motions-human-brain-to-brain-interface.html Researchers were able to link two human brains together]], enabling one person to control the other's arm.

ElectronicTelepathy or ''e-telepathy'' is a sub-trope of {{Telepathy}}. In most cases characters using telepathic powers will do so by using some kind of supernatural force or a highly evolved biological mechanism that comes thanks to being a SufficientlyAdvancedAlien. However, in some cases a character will have no natural or supernatural telepathic ability and instead use a NeuralInterface to gain this power. In this form of telepathy, thoughts are converted from impulses in the brain (electric activity produced by neuron reaction potentials) into digital signals that can then be broadcast artificially to another e-telepath using radio waves or some other form of wireless communication. Obviously, this can lead to MentalFusion or even a HiveMind just as non-technological telepathy can.

[[folder:Fanfiction]]
* ''Fanfic/{{Domoverse}}'', has Glitch, who when connected, manifests on screen as an [[Our Angels Are Different angel.]]
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[[folder:WebOriginal]]
* ''WhateleyUniverse'', has Technopath [[{{OurWerebeastsAreDifferent}} Cyberkitty.]]
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