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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jack7" data-source="post: 5780033" data-attributes="member: 54707">I'll give you guys a good example from my point of view. The Palantir. an excellent example of fantasy psychaecs, for the exact reason that the use of it was misleading, it gave misinformation and disinformation, and the useage of it was really a test of wills.A specially modified television or even internet like device that allowed one end-user to read the mind of the person on the other end through input/output devices would be a great psionic device. And of course if this device gave misleading or false information it would not be considered a reliable psionic device, but a totally unreliable and untrustworthy device. Because technology is supposed to be reliable and that would extend even to "psychic devices" or at least fictional psychic devices.If a technological psionic device gave false information, or could be easily intercepted or tampered with as it functioned, then it would be, while not useless, at least considered unreliable. And would therefore be considered only one tool in the toolbelt. In a technological or sci-fi world.On the other hand a Palantir, whereas certainly imperfect, and even psychologically very dangeorus to use, would be a perfectly risk-acceptable tool and perhaps even the only way to gather otherwise unobtainable intelligence or to communicate quickly over a vast distance in a fantasy world.Sci-fi psionics and fantasy psychaecs share some commonalities in end-purposes, but they operate entirely differently in practice, and often with very, very different risk assessments.The very reasons for the existence of operational technologies are that they are reliable, and that they limit risk. This isn't the way I see things working in fantasy worlds at all, not in games or in literature.So to me, although similar in some ways, they are very, very different operationally. Fantasy psychaecs should be dangerous both when they fail, and even when they work correctly. Sci-fi psionics are only really dangerous most of the time when they fail.</blockquote>

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