Tesla was right
06/13/2010 09:52
It is possible to broadcast electrical power wirelessly.
Hmm...What else was he right about? How many other technologies have not been deployed, simply because they wouldn’t be in the short-term best interests of the powers that be? WIMAX comes to mind. The technology has existed for nearly ten years. But they can't figure a way to fit it into the telecom model -- or rather, to prevent it from trashing the telecom model and establishing the possibility of wireless peer to peer networking.
Somebody should write a book about the ways technology has been channeled by the pursuit of profits. It could begin with the dumping of the Minneapolis streetcars into Lake Minnetonka.
