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When wireless is perfectly applied the whole earth will be converted into a huge brain, which in fact it is, all things being particles of a real and rhythmic whole. We shall be able to communicate with one another instantly, irrespective of distance. Not only this, but through television and telephony we shall see and hear one another as perfectly as though we were face to face, despite intervening distances of thousands of miles; and the instruments through which we shall be able to do this will be amazingly simple compared with our present telephone. A man will be able to carry one in his vest pocket.

Nikola Tesla

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Predicting the future Technological progress

Speaker

Nikola Tesla

Source

Collier's Magazine

Medium

Interview

Language

English

Time

1926 1920s 20th century

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Citation

Tesla, Nikola. "When Woman is Boss." Interviewed by John B. Kennedy. Collier's magazine, 30 Jan. 1926.

In the past the man has been first. In the future the System must be first.

Frederick Winslow Taylor

Read The Principles of Scientific Management at Project Gutenberg

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Topic

The individual Business management

Author

Frederick Winslow Taylor

Source

The Principles of Scientific Management

Genre

Business literature

Language

English

Time

1911 1910s 20th century

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Original Citation

Taylor, Frederick Winslow. The Principles of Scientific Management. Harper & Brothers, 1911, introduction.

Current Citation

Taylor, Frederick Winslow. The Principles of Scientific Management. Engineering & Management Press, 1998, introduction.

Basic research is what I am doing when I don't know what I am doing.

Wernher von Braun

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Topic

Research

Speaker

Wernher von Braun

Source

A Random Walk in Science

Language

English

Time

1973 1970s 20th century

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Citation

Von Braun, Werner. Quoted in A Random Walk in Science, edited by Eric Mendoza. Institute of Physics Publishing, 1973. Originally stated during an interview with The New York Times, 16 Dec. 1957.

Don't tell me that man doesn't belong out there. Man belongs wherever he wants to go-and he'll do plenty well when he gets there.

Wernher von Braun

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Topic

Space travel Space

Speaker

Wernher von Braun

Source

Space: Reach for the Stars Time Magazine

Language

English

Time

1958 1950s 20th century

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Citation

Von Braun, Werner. "Space: Reach for the Stars." Time, 17 Feb. 1958.

In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization.

Nikola Tesla

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Topic

Robots

Speaker

Nikola Tesla

Source

A Machine to End War Liberty magazine

Medium

Interview Magazine

Language

English

Time

1935 1930s 20th century

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Citation

Tesla, Nikola. "A Machine to End War." Interviewed by George Sylvester Viereck. Liberty Magazine, 9 Feb. 1935.