{"id":5096,"date":"2013-04-24T09:20:22","date_gmt":"2013-04-24T15:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=5096"},"modified":"2013-04-24T09:20:22","modified_gmt":"2013-04-24T15:20:22","slug":"nikola-tesla%e2%80%99s-amazing-predictions-for-the-21st-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=5096","title":{"rendered":"Nikola Tesla\u2019s Amazing Predictions for the 21st Century"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.smithsonianmag.com\/paleofuture\/2013\/04\/nikola-teslas-amazing-predictions-for-the-21st-century\/\">Smithsonian:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In the 1930s journalists from publications like the New York Times and Time magazine would regularly visit Nikola Tesla at his home on the 20th floor of the Hotel Governor Clinton in Manhattan. There the elderly Tesla would regale them with stories of his early days as an inventor and often opined about what was in store for the future.<\/p>\n<p>Last year we looked at Tesla\u2019s prediction that eugenics and the forced sterilization of criminals and other supposed undesirables would somehow purify the human race by the year 2100. Today we have more from that particular article which appeared in the February 9, 1935, issue of Liberty magazine. The article is unique because it wasn\u2019t conducted as a simple interview like so many of Tesla\u2019s other media appearances from this time, but rather is credited as \u201cby Nikola Tesla, as told to George Sylvester Viereck.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not clear where this particular article was written, but Tesla\u2019s friendly relationship with Viereck leads me to believe it may not have been at his Manhattan hotel home. Interviews with Tesla at this time would usually occur at the Hotel, but Tesla would sometimes dine with Viereck and his family at Viereck\u2019s home on Riverside Drive, meaning that it\u2019s possible they could have written it there.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Smithsonian: In the 1930s journalists from publications like the New York Times and Time magazine would regularly visit Nikola Tesla at his home on the 20th floor of the Hotel Governor Clinton in Manhattan. There the elderly Tesla would regale them with stories of his early days as an inventor and often opined about what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5096"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}