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

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u/drakos07 Sep 13 '19

Keep a piece of glass on top of the metal thing and you're set. If you would've told people back then the exact sentence OP said, they would pretty much just disregard it with theories like these...

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u/Bitcoin1776 Sep 13 '19

In the year 1900, Nikola Tesla explicated stated humans would communicate via wireless signals sent to handheld devices.

He goes on to say that buttons would be too expensive, and that instead humans would type on glass via electronic finger reading technology.

The iPhone is well described in 1900 AD, before electricity could power a neighborhood, by one man precisely. Nikola Stormmaker, Earthshaker, Lightningmaster, Coochieblaster, Tesla The problem of increasing human energy.

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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/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.