skannaan
Skannaan is a term used in speculative fiction to describe a technology or practice that records and reproduces sensory and cognitive data from a subject. In the stories where it appears, skannaan enables the transfer of experiences—sights, sounds, thoughts, and emotions—from one person to another, often through an immersive interface such as a neural headset or holo-display. The term is used both for the device and the act of performing a scan.
Etymology and usage: The word appears in several worldbuilding texts and varies by author; some variants use
Technology and method: In-world, a skannaan session involves a calibrated neural scan that maps patterns associated
Reception and examples: Skannaan appears primarily in science fiction and cyberpunk fiction as a narrative device
See also: memory transfer, neuroimaging, brain-computer interface, virtual reality, data ethics.