https://www.geekwire.com/2015/nikola-tesla-predicted-smartphones-in-1926-like-a-boss/
“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.”
Thanks - I know a bit about the Tesla/Edison power battle and hardly anything about what our world would look like if Tesla had won.
Thanks for the link - I’m supposed to be doing things - will read later. Thanks again.
Did you read the rest of his predictions?
The end of motherhood and the supremacy of women over men.
Based on what trends he is seeing he refers to the queen bee and her. hive:
THERE are the vast, desexualized armies of workers whose sole aim and happiness in life is hard work. It is the perfection of communism, of socialized, cooperative life wherein all things, including the young, are the property and concern of all.