How would our world be, if Tesla's dreams were realized?

I believe, that about no person, after his death so many good things are claimed as on the famous inventor Nikola Tesla. But how would our world really look like today, if Nikola Tesla would have become by marketing his inventions the most powerful man on earth. Would we really live in a paradise?
 
Wireless power might be ahead, but I don't see many other differences. The issue with much of Tesla's stuff is that while it worked well in the lab, the mechanisms he used would have made it a devil of a job to scale up.
 
We shouldn't get hung up on wireless power, because Tesla did so much more, with many, many patents. The issue is that if he and any sense for money management, and could have directed the profits of one invention/contribution into successive ones, he could have put Edison to shame.
 
Well most our modern grid is dependent on his work. I suppose it's possible that with the right ideas and motivation he could have got us TV quite a bit earlier, but I really don't see many of his other ideas having a great deal of impact.
 
For people of color, LGBT, and the disabled it would suck. Consider that Nikola Tesla was actually one of the biggest advocates of eugenics. Just read The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould,....
 

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But how would our world really look like today, if Nikola Tesla would have become by marketing his inventions the most powerful man on earth.


You want to know what our world would look like if Tesla's achievable dreams were realized? Look out the window. We're already living in Tesla's world and the only things which haven't been achieved are those which are technologically impossible.

I realize that school is out and I realize that Tesla is every technologically illiterate fanboy's binky, but, just as with da Vinci, everything that Tesla proposed isn't actually possible or practical.

Would we really live in a paradise?

No, because we're still human.
 
I realize that school is out and I realize that Tesla is every technologically illiterate fanboy's binky, but, just as with da Vinci, everything that Tesla proposed isn't actually possible or practical.
He played a big role in promoting AC in the War of Currents, plus several important patents I believe. So yes, we really are living in Tesla's world.
 
We shouldn't get hung up on wireless power, because Tesla did so much more, with many, many patents. The issue is that if he and any sense for money management, and could have directed the profits of one invention/contribution into successive ones, he could have put Edison to shame.

Well, he also would have needed Edison-style goon squads.
 
I love the idea of United States secret agents using earthquake machines to attempt to decapitate the leadership of a say Japan or the US army entering WW1 with laser guns and energy shielded ships.
 
But the wireless energy can be very,very dangerous.
So can all that other stuff. workers dropped like flies (sick, not many died IIRC) as soon as the first commercial petrol-lead plant opened.

I love the idea of United States secret agents using earthquake machines to attempt to decapitate the leadership of a say Japan or the US army entering WW1 with laser guns and energy shielded ships.
None of which Tesla was working on. Might have seen some early variations on a Fritz-X though.
 
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