Roots of sense copying goes to beginning of this century. This is better known as thoughtography. In simple terms, thoughtography, aka nengraphy is the ability to physically "burn" images from one's mind into surfaces or even into the minds of others.[Source - Wikipedia]
Actually I felt the need for this supernatural ability in human beings after attending a session on Axis2 transports done by Asankha C. Perera of WSO2 today. It was quite informative and very well presented. But if we had thoughtographic capabilities in us, we all would be better off as it was a torrent of information I would say! :).