BlackBerry Predicted a Century Ago By Nikola Tesla

andylim writes "According to the Telegraph, the BlackBerry was first predicted more than a century ago, by Nikola Tesla, the electrical engineer. Seth Porges, Popular Mechanics' current technology editor, disclosed Tesla's prediction at a presentation, titled '108 Years of Futurism,' to industry figures recently in New York. Recombu.com has published the original Popular Mechanics article in which Tesla predicts a mobile phone revolution."

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Re:Yet another example of why...

[Hurricane78]

the rantings of once-great scientist who has slipped into mediocrity, or even insanity.

I’m sorry, but being in the “unfortunate” situation of having a relatively high IQ, I found the following to be true:

Any sufficiently advanced intelligence is indistinguishable from stupidity.

Oh, and that strangely, in the western world, being dumb somehow seems to have become the ideal. Dumb people are the ones who get aided, supported and encouraged. One could say: In the western world, the dumb one is acting like the idiot is YOU! ;) Somehow they can insult us, but we can’t call them what they are. :/

As /. has a high ratio of intelligent people, I’m sure you’ve been there too...

P.S.: Being intelligent does not mean we are perfect. So errors in my third language do not invalidate what I said. (That would be a logical fallacy anyway.)
P.P.S.: The above quote seems to also be true for the “spy” type of intelligence.