We
all know that, Nikola Tesla is the most visionary human ever lived.
Today we’ll see some of
his vision. Which will help us to understand, what is dream?
This will inspire us,
not to give up.
One thing I always find whenever
I look in his life, that maybe you fail today. But tomorrow is yours.
Wireless Technology
When wireless is
perfectly applied the whole earth will be converted into a huge brain, which in
fact it is, all things being particles of a real and rhythmic whole. We shall
be able to communicate with one another instantly, irrespective of distance.
Not only this, but through television and telephony we shall see and hear one
another as perfectly as though we were face to face, despite intervening
distances of thousands of miles; and the instruments through which we shall be
able to do his will be amazingly simple compared with our present telephone. A
man will be able to carry one in his vest pocket.
We shall be able to
witness and hear events—the inauguration of a President, the playing of a world
series game, the havoc of an earthquake or the terror of a battle—just as
though we were present.
When the wireless
transmission of power is made commercial, transport and transmission will be
revolutionized. Already motion pictures have been transmitted by wireless over
a short distance. Later the distance will be illimitable, and by later I mean
only a few years hence. Pictures are transmitted over wires—they were
telegraphed successfully through the point system thirty years ago. When
wireless transmission of power becomes general, these methods will be as crude
as is the steam locomotive compared with the electric train.
Wireless transmission of
power was of particular interest to Tesla, but it's his predictions around
mobile phone technology that have proved most prescient here in the early 21st
century.
And
Present wireless
receiving apparatus will be scrapped for much simpler machines; static and all
forms of interference will be eliminated, so that innumerable transmitters and
receivers may be operated without interference. It is more than probable that
the household's daily newspaper will be printed 'wirelessly' in the home during
the night. Domestic management—the problems of heat, light and household
mechanics—will be freed from all labor through beneficent wireless power.
Flying Machine
Perhaps the most
valuable application of wireless energy will be the propulsion of flying
machines, which will carry no fuel and will be free from any limitations of the
present airplanes and dirigibles. We shall ride from New York to Europe in a
few hours. International boundaries will be largely obliterated and a great
step will be made toward the unification and harmonious existence of the
various races inhabiting the globe. Wireless will not only make possible the
supply of energy to region, however inaccessible, but it will be effective
politically by harmonizing international interests; it will create
understanding instead of differences.
Eugenics and the
perfection of humanity
Imagination falters at
the prospect of human analogy to this mysterious and superbly dedicated
civilization of the bee; but when we consider how the human instinct for race
perpetuation dominates life in its normal and exaggerated and perverse
manifestations, there is ironic justice in the possibility that this instinct,
with the continuing intellectual advance of women, may be finally expressed
after the manner of the bee, though it will take centuries to break down the
habits and customs of peoples that bar the way to such a simply and
scientifically ordered civilization.
We have seen a beginning
of this in the United States. In Wisconsin the sterilization of confirmed
criminals and pre-marriage examination of males is required by law, while the
doctrine of eugenics is now boldly preached where a few decades ago its
advocacy was a statutory offense.
Old men have dreamed
dreams and young men have seen visions from the beginning of time. We of today
can only sit and wonder when a scientist has his say.
He was futurist, He saw far beyond future from his day.
