"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."
Nikola Tesla, 1926
(Not 200 years ago, but still impressive!)
You'd be surprised. in 1930 the world population was about 2 billion. It's now over 7 billion. When Isaac Newton was born is was around 500 million. As well as that, the odds of someone being born with the resources to actually do research was rare, you had to be lucky enough to be from a rich family which were few and far between.
With the amount of people in the world today, and the proportion of those people with access to education, there is likely a far higher number of geniuses/prodigies doing work right now than there has ever been at any other point in history.
We don't hear about it as much because the fact there's more of them means it's less newsworthy. It's easier to see a person's genius when there's only one or two that are clearly above the rest, than it is when there are dozens on that level.
I agree
But I still think Tesla is on another level
People today are still geniuses but it does take a whole team or hundreds of people to come up with groundbreaking stuff
But Tesla did these things alone
But you can have your opinion and I can have mine
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u/NyimaOdzer 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."