Perhaps, in the scientific world there is no other figure, enveloped by so many secrets, myths and even the aura of mysticism. No legend could not have done the very birth of Nikola Tesla: according to rumors, it happened at midnight, when there are lightning and thunder.
Ah, what a pity that many of the traditions associated with the scientist, only fiction.
No, not Tesla invented alternating current generator in an instant by drawing in the sand his scheme... No experiments Balkan Physics engineer did not cause the fall of the Tunguska meteorite... Tesla also did not invent the "death ray", "anti-gravity machine" did not open teleportation ...
However, it is to him we owe the appearance of such things as radio, electric clocks, remote control, fluorescent light bulbs, motor solar energy ...
And Nikola Tesla willingly gave interviews and in many of them to make predictions for the distant future. One of the conversations published in Collier's magazine (US) Jan. 30, 1926, particularly strongly suggestive that "the master of electricity" were peculiar and supernatural powers. In particular, the gift of prophecy.
After all, Tesla claimed that:
- the development of wireless communication will transform our planet into a single brain ...
- Distance does not cease to affect communication, people will be able to interact, being on different continents. A portable device with which the inhabitants of the earth will see and hear each other, "will be worn in a vest pocket" ...
- Will be electric vehicles, electric trains and locomotives will be sent to museums ...
- With wireless, the morning paper can be printed at home ...
- Manage the buildings - their heating, lighting - equipment will start ...
- Aircraft strongly reduced, pushing cars, solving the problem with parking and road junctions ...
- Women do not just achieve equal rights with men (remember, the interview is dated 1926 year, and, for example, in Britain the ladies given the opportunity to vote in 1928). Women, according to Tesla, change the "gender order" .Poluchiv education, allowing to compete with men on an equal footing, they will no longer aspire to marriage, procreation. Because of this, consider Tesla, human civilization begins to approach a model beehive. That is - some will work and others support the population ...
- Robots will become part of our everyday life ...
- Surgeons replace controlled machinery ...
- In general, people begin to pay more attention to physical education than reading, self-education ...
I must say, Tesla is not just giving an interview in which drew fantastic (as it seemed to his contemporaries) picture of the future. It is difficult to say whether this vision as he hinted Tesla...
Or a scholar, a lover of effects and self-promotion, just to shock his many fans. In any case, in the same interview, he also said that talks with lightning and thunder understand the language ...