YOU’RE GONNA NEED A MUCH BIGGER BLOG: The worst tech predictions ever.
This is probably my favourite tech prediction gone RIGHT. Nikola Tesla calling the mobile age during a 1926 Collier’s interview:
“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 this will be amazingly simple compared with our present telephone. A man will be able to carry one in his vest pocket.”
Although considering what these devices are used for on social media, perhaps Tesla hadn’t predicted their ability to amplify “the monsters from the ID:”