
At 09:28 AM 4/17/96 -6, Peter Trei wrote:
PS: If anyone can tell me the name of the 1965 movie starring Michael Renee that dealt with the above two issues, please tell me.
If you were not aware, the movie dealt with a plan, initially, to link all humanity directly to each other. One could "download" data directly into your brain ! You could also have "mental telepathy" and communicate with others. Michael Renee's character escapes to the past to try to end research done by a scientist, that lead up to the inevitable
a totalitarian world government takes control of everyone;
even your thoughts are no longer private.
I strongly suspect that you are refering to "Cyborg 2087" aka "The Man from Tomorrow" a 1966 film starring Micheal Rennie (note spelling). It took about 2 minutes to track this down on the net. Peter Trei
A different (and rather funny) treatment of a similar concept was done in the 1967 (?) movie, "The President's Analyst," with James Coburn, Godfrey Cambridge, Severn Darden.