Any article implying some sort of exclusive "prediction" of any name brand (whether it be Blackberry, iPhone, Android, Palm, etc.) by Tesla or anyone else of his caliber would be a farse and should be called out as such. This is clearly advertising trying to be disguised as journalism. If Apple or Google pulled the same stunt that RIM pulled with this article, it would have been criticized just as much.
This is an idiotic story that I am ashamed made it on to Slashdot. Tesla never predicted BlackBerry; he predicted mobile technology for sending communications wirelessly (not to mention electricity transmission without wires). This technology is not exclusive to BlackBerry devices and writing an article with the the name BlackBerry (or any other name implying exclusivity) in the title smells of advertising being disguised as journalism. And that this article made it to Slashdot stinks even more, as I would have expected this to scrutinized and thrown out before it ever got proliferated to readers.
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Any article implying some sort of exclusive "prediction" of any name brand (whether it be Blackberry, iPhone, Android, Palm, etc.) by Tesla or anyone else of his caliber would be a farse and should be called out as such. This is clearly advertising trying to be disguised as journalism. If Apple or Google pulled the same stunt that RIM pulled with this article, it would have been criticized just as much.
This is an idiotic story that I am ashamed made it on to Slashdot. Tesla never predicted BlackBerry; he predicted mobile technology for sending communications wirelessly (not to mention electricity transmission without wires). This technology is not exclusive to BlackBerry devices and writing an article with the the name BlackBerry (or any other name implying exclusivity) in the title smells of advertising being disguised as journalism. And that this article made it to Slashdot stinks even more, as I would have expected this to scrutinized and thrown out before it ever got proliferated to readers.