Tesla is the perfect example for the failed genius. Furthermore, you can show a lot of the history of the past 150 years with Tesla. He is also a role model for what not to do in the future, because men’s most dangerous enemy is his own hubris. Tesla regarded the cosmos as a gigantic building site, and himself as the construction manager. This attitude had to fail in the end. All Best for 2010!
The Copenhagen conference (COP15) shows how unimportant the true issues of humanity are treated in the 21st century. It is the political collapse of the environmental movement, the victory of economy over reason. Now, there seems to be only one way left: one by one, the public has to be informed about the real extent of the climate catastrophe we’re already in. We humans need oxygen, and we are burning it up and replace it with CO2. What did Tesla say: “This method is barbarous!”
Hi! The Dec. 11-presentation “How Nikola Tesla invented the 20th century” at the cultural center Urania in Berlin was very well attended and got some big applause. The newly sketched presentation (running time: 43 minutes) and the film “All About Tesla - the research” in its 42 minute-version was followed by a lively Q&A, mirroring the awareness and public interest in Nikola Tesla and his work as well. Various topics were discussed, starting with interest in Tesla’s later years and his becoming a role model of the “mad scientist”, and ending with remarks placing Tesla in the same realm as Leonardo daVinci. Hopefully you can see the presentation in a venue near you soon …
Friday December 11th 7:30 p.m. URANIA BERLIN
dialogue with the screen - performance/book presentation/doc film
Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) is one of the most important masterminds of the modern age, thanks to his thoughts we have energy (AC) and telecommunication (radio). Tesla’s life is like a thriller /w ingredients of science, money and power, and - becoming more important in the future, Nikola Tesla is the visionary of an ecological energy concept for the 21st century.
