the life of the bee will be the life of our race says nikola tesla world famed scientist
a new sex order is coming with the female is superior you will communicate instantly by
simple vest pocket equipment aircraft will travel the skies unmanned driven and guided by radio
enormous power will be transmitted great distances without wires
earthquakes will become more and more frequent temperate zones will turn frigid or torrid
and some of these awe-inspiring developments are not so very far off from the inception of
the wireless system i saw that this new art of applied electricity would be of greater benefit
to the human race than any other scientific discovery for it virtually eliminates distance
the majority of the ills from which humanity suffers are due to the immense extent of
the terrestrial globe and the inability of individuals and nations to come into close contact
wireless will achieve the closer contact through transmission of intelligence transport
of our bodies and materials and conveyance of energy 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 will be able to do this will be amazingly
simple compared to our present telephone a man will be able to carry one in his vest pocket
we shall be able to witness and hear events the inauguration of a president the playing of a world
series game the havoc of an earthquake or the terror of a battle just as though we were present
edison had a good deal to do with the bringing out of the telephone perhaps he could conceive
of something better than the telephone better than the telegraph something that would utilize
a new force of which mankind is not yet conscious he could conceive of such a force
so far as i know there is no quality of the ether that will permit us to send wave impulses in other
than the electrical form but i have no doubt that wave impulses can be sent in other and perhaps
better forms i do know however that the present telephone is very imperfect if you want to know
how imperfect it is read the drug market to a stereographer at the other end of the wire and
see how much of it he or she will get the success of the telephone is due to the human imagination
a man is rung up on the phone he gets a clue to the identity of the person who is calling him
and if the subject broached is one with which he is familiar the rest is easy but mention
a name that the other person did not expect to hear and see how quickly he will break in
with a what's that repeat the name and finally spell it edison believes the day will come
when the telephone will leave little or nothing to the imagination when it will shout out proper
names or whisper the quotations from the drug market when i am trying to make a thing i always
play my blue chips first i try to think of the biggest thing that could be done and then do it
it is more probable that the household's daily newspaper will be printed wirelessly in the home
during the night domestic management the problems of heat light and household mechanics will be
freed from all labor through beneficent wireless power perhaps the most valuable application of
wireless energy will be the propulsion of flying machines which will carry no fuel and will be free
from any limitations of the present airplanes and originals we shall ride from new york to europe
in a few hours international boundaries will be largely obliterated and a great step will be made
towards the unification and harmonious existence of the various races inhabiting the globe wireless
will not only make possible the supply of energy to a region however inaccessible but it will be
effective politically by harmonizing international interests it will create understanding instead
of differences i foresee the development of the flying machine exceeding that of the automobile
and i expect mr ford to make large contributions towards this progress the problem of parking
automobiles and furnishing separate roads for commercial and pleasure traffic will be solved
belted parking towers will arise in our large cities and the roads will be multiplied through
sheer necessity or finally rendered unnecessary when civilization exchanges wheels for wings
edison ought to know a good deal about transportation however so i asked him
what improvements were probable in the means of transportation edison answered the aeroplane
question he answered it by telling a story ten years ago he was sitting in front of his winter
laboratory in florida not a cloud was in the sky the smoke from a neighboring chimney went
up straight up for a thousand feet almost as high as the pillar of smoke saw the buzzard
whether the bird circled slid or climbed it never flapped a wing always its wings were like the
hands of a clock at quarter to three edison marvelled with no wind blowing with no wing
flapping what kept the bird aloft what enabled it to climb after it had slid down the air i think i
know what kept that bird in the air it traveled on sound waves and the little pin feathers on
the inside of its wings made the waves the air when struck with sufficient quickness
is as rigid as steel suppose you had four million trained bumblebees attached to wire wickerwork on
which was sealed a man can't you understand that if the bumblebees were signaled to fly
they would lift the man i believe mechanical bumblebees could be so attached to a flying
machine that they would lift it straight up by mechanical bumblebees i mean inclined planes
revolving upon perpendicular shafts a tremendous speed and once in the air ordinary propellers
could be used to drive the machine ahead edison believes the present type of aeroplanes will
soon be discarded and that bumblebee fliers will carry passengers at the rate of 100 miles or more
mr tesla regards the emergence of woman as one of the most profound portents for the future
it is clear to any trained observer and even to the sociologically untrained that a new attitude
towards sex discrimination has come over the world through the centuries this struggle of
the human female towards sex equality will end in a new sex order with the female a superior
it is not in the shallow physical imitation of men that women will assert first their
equality and later their superiority but in the awakening of the intellect of women the
female mind has demonstrated a capacity for all the mental requirements and achievements of men
and as generations ensue that capacity will be expanded the average woman will be as educated
as the average man and then better educated for the dormant faculties of her brain will
be stimulated to an activity that will be all the more intense and powerful because of centuries of
repose the acquisition of new fields of endeavour by women their gradual usurpation of leadership
will dull and finally dissipate feminine sensibilities we'll choke the maternal instinct
so that marriage and motherhood may become abhorrent and human civilization draw closer
and closer to the perfect civilization of the bee the center of all be life is the queen she
dominates the hive not through hereditary right for any egg may be hatched into a reigning queen
but because she is the womb of this insect race 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
industrially and politically edison looks for a lively future he believes serious industrial
troubles clashes of a sort that will threaten dynasties and thrones are due in europe any time
and that similar troubles will be due in this country in 10 years i believe that all england
will someday stop at the sound of one command and that the command of a working man such is the
world that edison sees coming what a flashlight picture of the future man at last coming into his
own because his brain that has developed so slowly has told him that everything on earth in the sky
and beyond the sky are his own that the lightning can be bended to his will the cataract harnessed
to his need and the dead iron in rocks fashioned into tongues that speak and hands that make hands
such as never were human hands hands that can spin a thread of silk or crush a ton of rock hands that
could make in abundance whatever human beings need in such a world how can there be poverty
there will be no poverty in the world a hundred years from now there is no limit to the cheapness
with which things can be made the world will soon be flooded with the cheap products of machinery
not the poor products the cheap products i think the coming farmer will be a man
on a seat beside a push button and some levers the present trend all points to this conclusion
edison says that today the most civilized countries of the world spend a maximum of
their income on war and a minimum on education the 21st century will reverse this order
it will be more glorious to fight against ignorance than to die on the field of battle
the discovery of a new scientific truth will be more important than the squabbles of diplomats
the newspapers of the 21st century will give a mere stick in the back pages to accounts of crime
or political controversies but will headline on the front pages the proclamation of a new
scientific hypothesis progress along such lines will be impossible while nations persist in the
savage practice of killing each other off i inherited from my father an erudite man who
labored hard for peace and inerradicable hatred of war like other inventors i believed at one
time that war could be stopped by making it more destructive but i found that i was mistaken i
underestimated man's combative instinct which it will take more than a century to breed out
we cannot abolish war by outlawing it we cannot end it by disarming the strong war can be stopped
not by making the strong weak but by making every nation weak or strong able to defend itself
i was fortunate enough to evolve a new idea and to perfect means which can be used chiefly for
defense if it is adopted it will revolutionize the relations between nations it will make any
country large or small impregnable against armies airplanes and other means of attack
my invention requires a large plant but once it is established it will be possible to destroy
anything man or machine approaching within a radius of 200 miles i want to state explicitly
that this invention of mine does not contemplate the use of any so-called
death rays rays are not applicable because they cannot be produced in requisite quantities
and diminish rapidly in intensity with distance all the energy of new york city approximately 2
million horsepower transformed into rays and projected 20 miles could not kill a human
being because according to a well-known law of physics it would disperse to such an extent as to
be ineffectual unless mankind's attention is too violently diverted by external wars and internal
revolutions there is no reason why the electric millennium should not begin in a few decades
war being hell what edison thinks of war and what he has done to make war more like hell
are left to the last if governments don't heed edison believes that they will be destroyed
by their own peoples in his opinion governments will heed by making the hague tribunal
the supreme court of the world he believes the people are going to provide these means
he believes there are stormy days ahead for the man who would take what another man makes
he believes there will be cracks in the walls of government and rips in constitutions that
the working man the man who will someday say to england stand still will compel governments to
serve him and destroy any government that will not serve him moreover he believes things ought to be
changed civilization he says is not on the right basis a few are getting too much and the rest
not enough there will be some big experiments tried in government within the next 50 years
all of us may not be here to see the specter of poverty laid away but according to edison
a few of the youngest will hear the rattle of musketry over its grave thanks for tuning in
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