Nikola Tesla scrive sul Electrical World & Engineering sul futuro della trasmissione wireless e si immagina la trasmissione dell’informazione a tutte le popolazioni del mondo provocando una rivoluzione culturale e di costume. Si immagina dispositivi tascabili che possono essere portati su terra e su mare, che riceveranno in tempo reale le notizie dal mondo o messaggi personali. L’intero pianeta, dice, verra’ convertito in una singola immensa entita’ cerebrale. Le stesse idee le aveva gia’ espresse nel 1900 nella rivista Century. Si tratta di una visione incredibilmente lucida del futuro dell’era dell’Information Technology e delle Wireless Communications e di Internet, per non parlare dei telefonini cellulari e smartphones. L’articolo e’ intitolato: “The Transmission of Electrical Energy Without Wires”. Una parte del teso originale dice: “I have no doubt that it will prove very efficient in enlightening the masses, particularly in still uncivilized countries and less accessible regions, and that it will add materially to general safety, comfort and convenience, and maintenance of peaceful relations. It involves the employment of a number of plants, all of which are capable of transmitting individualized signals to the uttermost confines of the earth. Each of them will be preferably located near some important center of civilization and the news it receives through any channel will be flashed to all points of the globe. A cheap and simple device, which might be carried in one’s pocket, may then be set up somewhere on sea or land, and it will record the world’s news or such special messages as may be intended for it. Thus the entire earth will be converted into a huge brain, as it were, capable of response in every one of its parts. Since a single plant of but one hundred horse-power can operate hundreds of millions of instruments, the system will have a virtually infinite working capacity, and it must needs immensely facilitate and cheapen the transmission of intelligence.”
