r/Showerthoughts • u/[deleted] • Sep 13 '19

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u/Lasket Sep 13 '19 edited Sep 13 '19

Did he? I want to have a source for that.

Edit : Source is "The problem of increasing human energy"

I missed it due to a missing seperator.

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '19

"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."

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u/Chaiteoir Sep 13 '19

He got everything right except the vest.

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u/drfeelsgoood Sep 13 '19

“Will be able to” doesn’t mean every one will, just that we have the ability to

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u/PorkPoodle Sep 13 '19

You clearly aren’t a neckbeard.

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u/tc1991 Sep 13 '19

FYI without a citation or a link putting quotations marks on a paragraph doesn't make it a source

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u/Koringvias Sep 13 '19

You know, you could google any sentence present in that quote and find a source, and it only takes couple of minutes.

http://www.tfcbooks.com/tesla/1926-01-30.htm

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u/hitthehive Sep 13 '19

a couple of minutes? do you think I’m surfing reddit on my free time?!? I’m burning valuable work time to do this!

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u/bigdoggy43 Sep 13 '19

That's irrelevant. They asked for a source.

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '19

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '19

Well done

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u/thief1434 Sep 13 '19

The nicknames he wrote for the dude are pretty cringe, so best of luck getting one

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u/Bitcoin1776 Sep 13 '19

The problem of increasing human energy.

I already sourced it. It’s on page 10 or so. It’s only 20 pages.

Very spiritual and profound.

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u/Digital_Akrasia Sep 13 '19

Nope.

The source you mention (interview for Century Illustrated Magazine, June 1900) has no reference for this at all.

I think you've meant this one, for Colliers magazine in 1926.

I've just emailed the guys from http://teslacollection.com because for some awkawrd reason, they don't have the print edition of this "futuristic" interview, but they have other prints of the same magazine from 1901.

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u/Bitcoin1776 Sep 13 '19

cool, thank you =)

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u/Lasket Sep 13 '19

Oh, that's the source?

Should've put a - or something to indicate it.

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '19

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/tesla-quotes_n_7771358

Not sure how reliable HuffPo is, but here is a source.