Frequent Frequencies Frequent Frequencies

Samir Shukla

Beep. Beep. Beeeeep. Paging all scientists. Here is something I have been thinking about for some time. This may not be the most pressing dilemma facing humanity, but I’m talking about a logically probable scenario. This could be a possible invisible scourge realigning our brains over the long term, or maybe I’m just trying to justify my own slowly creeping brain fog.

Let’s open our files here. Here is my case.

Are we unknowingly self-manipulating or are being technologically manipulated into the next phase of human evolution, or devolution, by all the frequencies and transmissions swirling around us, literally travelling through us? Are our brains aggregating the effects of endless wireless transmissions and changing, dare I say evolving into something else?

I know what you are already thinking. Dude you’ve been watching too much science fiction. I am guilty of that. Sci fi is one of my favorite genres. We are living in a world that was science fiction just yesterday. The technologies we have today were science fiction just a few years earlier.

So, what about my hypothesis? Humor me and hear me out. This is an angular stitch of science fiction and fact in real time. My brain is sending its own invisible signals to my fingers while I’m writing this.

Think of all these transmissions and frequencies. All the cellular phone calls, social media feeds transmitting through the airwaves, walkie talkies, radio signals, broadcast signals, streaming movies and music, alien transmissions from outer space, all are constantly going through the walls, through our bodies, through our brains. I don’t mean the deluge of content itself, the information, misinformation, or disinformation. I mean the actual frequencies via which content is transmitted and is floating around, everywhere. These must eventually inflict some psychological and/or physiological effects on us in the long term.