The psychic and the technological represent two forms of the human attempt to abolish the constraints of time and space. We can, in fact, say with reason that technology represents the material expression or analogue of certain alleged psychic powers. Consider some examples. Here we find the limitations of space between people who wish to communicate abolished. Live television constitutes a type of machine-mediated clairvoyance, whereas film, video and audio technologies provide a neat physical analogue of retrocognition.
Precognition is an interesting case.
According to Laplace, we should, if we knew all the relevant variables, be able to predict the state of the universe for any time in the future. This involves the ability to directly influence states of matter. The important thing is that our power over matter and physical space is extensive. An atomic bomb embodies a physical power of destruction worthy of any mythic deity. Some mythic or psychic powers seem at this time to lie on the borderline of feasibility.