mind altering technology theme
A novel technology is used to alter (enhance or perhaps diminish) a person's mental ability. These are themes that posit technology to manipulate the human mind by cloning it, wiping it, moving it, controlling it, and so on.
6 total · 1 choice · 3 major · 2 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| tftc1989e7x09 | choice | The main novelty of the story was an electronic device that could "hypnotize" people into accepting suggestions of varying complexity. |
| movie: Brain Twisters (1991) | major | The college students who participated in Dr. Philip Rothman mind altering experiments experienced the strange side effect that they became violent killers. |
| movie: Minor Premise (2020) | major | Ethan seemingly perfected a memory recorder/eraser machine that he and his late father had been developing. But when Ethan used the machine to erase some painful memories pertaining to his father, it split him up into ten different personas. These personas cycled through his body one by one every hour, so that each persona was in control for a six minute duration each hour. |
| voy6x05 | major | Alice manipulated Tom's mind. |
| movie: Demolition Man (1993) | minor | The cryo-prisoners were implanted with career oriented skill knowledge that would help them transition back into society after release. Sergeant Spartan, for example, was surprised to find that he knew how to knit sweaters. |
| tz1985e1x24a | minor | The aliens used a machine to unprogram Kevin so that he remembered he himself was actually a vicious bug alien. |