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b"In our last episode of the season, we take one one of the most requested futures: telepathy! What would it be like to be able to link minds, and communicate brain to brain? And how likely is it that we\\u2019ll ever get this kind of technology?\\xa0\\n\\xa0\\n\\xa0We start the episode by talking to Roger Luckhurst, a Professor in Modern and Contemporary Literature at Birkbeck, University of London, who explains where the word telepathy comes from, and how it totally obsessed men of science in the early 1800\\u2019s. Then, futurist and science fiction author Ramez Naam walks us through both the current state of science and the futuristic world of his science fiction series Nexus, that centers around a drug that gives people telepathic powers. After that, we consider what a future full of telepathic people might mean for etiquette with Robin Abrahams, the etiquette columnist for the Boston Globe. And then we talk privacy and digital security with Kit Walsh, a a staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. And we finish out the episode by talking to Lateef McLeod, a poet, blogger, activist and doctoral student in the anthropology and social change program at California Institute for Integral Studies, about how those with complex communication needs might appreciate a new form of communication.\\n\\xa0\\n\\xa0Further reading: Science & history\\n\\xa0\\n\\xa0The Neurologist Who Hacked His Brain -- And Almost Lost His Mind\\n\\xa0When \\u201cI\\u201d becomes \\u201cWe\\u201d: ethical implications of emerging brain-to-brain interfacing technologies\\n\\xa0Conscious Brain-to-Brain Communication in Humans Using Non-Invasive Technologies\\n\\xa0Brain-to-Brain Interfaces: When Reality Meets Science Fiction\\n\\xa0The invention of telepathy, 1870-1901 by Roger Luckhurst\\n\\xa0Telepathy and literature: essays on the reading mind by Nicholas Royle\\n\\xa0\\u201cFirst Report of the Literary Committee by W.F. Barrett, C.C. Massey, Rev. W. Stainton Moses, Frank Podmore\\u2026. In Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research\\u201d\\xa0\\n\\xa0Phenomena: the secret history of the U.S. government's investigations into extrasensory perception and psychokinesis by Annie Jacobsen\\n\\xa0The 120-Year-Old Mind-Reading Machine\\n\\xa0The Future of Human Evolution | Ray Kurzweil Q & A | Singularity University\\n\\xa0Science Gave My Son the Gift of Sound\\n\\xa0Understanding Deafness: Not Everyone Wants to Be 'Fixed'\\n\\xa0Memory Implant Gives Rats Sharper Recollection\\n\\xa0Building the Bionic Brain\\n\\xa0A cortical neural prosthesis for restoring and enhancing memory\\n\\xa0Computing Arm Movements with a Monkey Brainet\\n\\xa0A Brain-to-Brain Interface for Real-Time Sharing of Sensorimotor Information\\n\\xa0The Ultimate Interface: Your Brain\\n\\xa0Reconstructing visual experiences from brain activity evoked by natural movies\\n\\xa0Facilitation and restoration of cognitive function in primate prefrontal cortex by a neuroprosthesis that utilizes minicolumn-specific neural firing\\n\\xa0Protect Your Right to Repair and Control the Devices in Your Life\\n\\xa0Defend Your Right to Repair!\\n\\xa0\\n\\xa0Flash Forward is produced by me, Rose Eveleth. The intro music is by Asura and the outtro music is by Hussalonia. The episode art is by Matt Lubchansky.\\n\\xa0\\n\\xa0If you want to suggest a future we should take on, send us a note on Twitter, Facebook or by email at info@flashforwardpod.com. We love hearing your ideas! And if you think you\\u2019ve spotted one of the little references I\\u2019ve hidden in the episode, email us there too. If you\\u2019re right, I\\u2019ll send you something cool.\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices"