wanted to put “permanent radio receiver transmitters in the brains of parolees” linked to a computer. They could be perpetually tracked and monitored and if the computer detected the “probability of misbehavior,” an electrical shock would be sent straight to their brain and alert police to their whereabouts. As it stood, a number of prototype devices of this sort were already being field tested. Also included on the list was Dr. Ralph K. Schwizgebel, author of Psychotechnology: Electronic Control Of The Mind (1972), who “conducted substantial research into” and whose book described the present
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