Psionic Crittertech
Well, it’s like this. During the 1970s there was a lot of psionic research that was being done by both the USSR and the USA; the Russians went in for mechanical and electronic methods that went nowhere, and the Americans went in for biological and genetic techniques that went nowhere. It turned out the problem was fundamentally that human brains are far too complex to successfully activate most psionic powers. Trying to do so ‘merely’ doesn’t work, at best — and fries the human cerebral cortex, at worst.