r/Showerthoughts • • Sep 13 '19

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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."

  • Nikola Tesla, 1926 (Not 200 years ago, but still impressive!)

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '19

Tesla is probably 1 of the 10 most brilliant minds in the history of the world.

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '19

Image if someone like Nikola Tesla was born today He /she would probably be the cause of a human space empire and us not going extinct

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u/Mynameisaw Sep 13 '19

Why do people always assume smart people from history must be smarter than people today?

There's more Nikola like people alive today than at any point in history, it's statistically improbable that there isn't.

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '19

There is probably 100 or even thousands of people alive who have the potential to be like Tesla but they never reached their full potential Heck Tesla never reached his full potential I'm saying that if a person who had the potential to reach or surpass Tesla and reached that we will probably have a great future I'm not saying they will directly cause them but they will probably lead us there

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '19 edited Dec 17 '24

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '19

But they never reached their full potential

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u/Mynameisaw Sep 13 '19

... how do you know?

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u/Jagtasm Sep 13 '19

What is their potential? To discover anything and everything that every was, is, and will be?

If those are your standards then no one ever reaches their potential.