Only God knows how beautiful the brain of this man truly was.

Tesla establishes the human race in this publication as a figurative free body diagram that can be influenced to move in a positive direction by:

1. Increasing Mass | Human health and productivity as derived from nutrition, lifestyle, and education. He suggests, in the tone of a scrawny bookworm, that physical strength and the development of an objectively 'strong' human form is a bygone era - a dangerous equation that equates physical strength and development with wasting resources.

2. Decreasing Retarding Forces | Primarily: ignorance, conflict, and inefficient structures of government. Tesla suggests that knowledge and science alone have the potential to decrease these forces substantially. He chooses to quote Buddha in saying that ignorance is "the greatest evil in the world."

3. Increasing Accelerating Forces | Natural energy sources - solar in particular. This solution was the one I found most intriguing due to the original date of publication: 1900. It is also the solution Tesla focuses on the most for the remainder of his deliberation. He touches on his research into the atmospheric transmission of electrical energy without the use of wiring, oscillation, geothermal energy, Maxwellian theory, and laments the prejudice many hold against the safe, practical usage of electrical pressures in the scale of millions of volts.

Tesla was a man whose decline is heartbreaking and whose inventions, when mentioned, summon forces few have the resources to counter. He is a coffee that can only be had with its grinds. What leaves me with a bittersweet taste is not these grinds, however - but Tesla's own decay - which I believe was most honorably eulogized in his own words:

"The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work is like that of the planter - for the future. His duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point the way. He lives and labors and hopes with the poet who says:

Daily work my hands' employment,
To complete is pure enjoyment!
Let, oh, let me never falter!
No! there is no empty dreaming:
No! these trees, but bare poles seeming,
Yet will yield both food and shelter!

Goethe's 'Hope', 1789."

Fascinating and maybe a little ominous

A man who was largely ignored.

It was very interesting to read about ideas that are now being used today. Tesla had ideas that would have solved the World's energy problems.

Tesla was a true humanitarian who was concerned about human prospect and at the same time was an eternal optimist. His optimism was not based merely on belief in human empathy, it was intellectually founded on his inventions and theories.
This book blew we away thinking that his theory was true and what development we would see today, were Tesla able to continue his projects. In other books about Tesla it can be read that J.P. Morgan stopped funding Tesla when he found out that energy could be provided to humanity free of charge. Unfortunately not all are as concerned as Tesla, so we'll have to wait until another genius comes along, hopefully with more business acumen.
Tesla already proved some of his theories presented in the book but not on a large scale. The mere idea of free energy and boost in human energy contributing to more or less erasing war is mind blowing.
I strongly recommend reading the book, hopefully it will at least contribute to grasp the human potential in symbiosis with our planet. We are better of expanding our abilities and potential of the universe rather than being robots working 9-17 for someone else's need of power and wealth .

Nikola Tesla is my all-time favorite scientist.

Visionary man who pursued a mankind-focused development. Good match thinking in what humanity needs, the opportunities and limitations of our Earth and the industry. A book aging well. But, for me, not a fun book.

Another fascinating book from Tesla addressing the problem of increasing human energy. Energy from the sun, population needs, and using a physics lens to see what is possible or at first concievable. Tesla is thinking about alternative energies which is unusual, because of the focus on fossil fuels after the industrial revolution, perhaps we could say again that Tesla was ahead of his time by looking at this already.

Dense. Really good stuff though, Tesla takes a step back and applies mechanical functions to the population of the Earth.

Crazy reading of the most enigmatic and genius guys ever, and his predictions are uncanny.

I you've ever taken physics, and preferably Electromagnetic Physics, this is a must read. Most of it is Abstracting simple newtonian mechanics (F=MA^2), and his EMag stuff is interesting too.

Mind blowing book ! While reading this book you can literally feel the insightful vision of tesla… lot of things which are discussed in this book are reality today… every page of this book is not less than a poetry… what he saw then was a reality of far ahead… i feel really blessed to read this wonderful book and to have a little bit insight into what scientists think like….

bilo mi je izuzetno zanimljivo videti kako je Tesla razmisljao i pisao pre 120 godina

A very poor attempt of plagiarism by a non English native writer.

Copy, rearranged, & paste. Then return later to add a bit of flair. Originally written by Nicola in 1900 this particular rendition lacks, well everything. After reading one chapter, it is clear that the monkey with the typewriter in the room with Shakespeare can't solve differential equations in a million years.

So if you are thinking, "hmmm, I like Nicola Tesla, and think I would like to read this book. Just don't. Unless you have a time machine and you have the ability to somehow get your time back. And, even then, you have a time machine. Do something entirely different and more productive. I wouldn't bother if I were you.

ISA