It might be obvious that someone who works for a company called TeslaVision might write about Nikola Tesla. Tesla, the namesake of our company, is arguably one of the most brilliant & interesting scientific minds to have ever lived. And yet, most people do not know who he was beyond the science class Tesla Coil toy. Are Einstein, Da Vinci, and Isaac Newton really more noteworthy than the founder of light, radar, and...the internet?
Yes the internet, sorry Al Gore. I am not naive enough to say that Tesla actually invented the internet (there were no computers in the late 19th and early 20th centuries), but the concepts he described fully outline a wireless age, describing to his largest backer, J.P. Morgan, "When wireless is fully applied, the earth will be converted into a huge brain, capable of response in every one of its parts." Sounds like the internet to me. Tesla even went so far as to build a device he called the "Teleautomaton," which allowed him to wirelessly control a boat on the water.
Beyond that, Nikola Tesla believed that wireless power is how the world will eventually run - no more clunky plugs and outlets. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is only now beginning to be able to achieve some of the things Nikola Tesla envisioned, and began to build. Shouldn't this winner of the "War of Currents" receive a little more respect? In an age where we are all concerned with more environmentally friendly approaches to energy and are driven by greater technological advances perhaps we should review Mr. Tesla's theories more closely and give him the respect he is due.
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