Schlagwort: Zukunft

Dreams of Memoria.

I dreamt all my future. Relived my past.

Nightwish: Bless The Child

Wirelesstentasche.

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.

Nikola Tesla: When woman is boss. Colliers, January 30, 1926.

1912.

The furnaces of the world are now burning about 2,000,000,000 tons of coal a year. When this is burned, uniting with oxygen, it adds about 7,000,000,000 tons of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere yearly. This tends to make the air a more effective blanket for the earth and to raise its temperature. The effect may be considerable in a few centuries.

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal, Wednesday 17th of July 1912: COAL CONSUMPTION AFFECTING CLIMATE.

Intertratschional.

With the historic abolition of long-distance charges on 31 December 2000, every telephone call became a local one, and the human race greeted the new millennium by transforming itself into one huge, gossiping family.

Arthur C. Clarke - 2061: Odyssey Three

Gone for a while.

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Cory Doctorow and Charles Stross: The Rapture of the Nerds: A Tale of the Singularity, Posthumanity, and Awkward Social Situations