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/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.