In 1926, long before satellites, smartphones, or even television had become part of daily life, Nikola Tesla looked into the future — and described our world with eerie precision.

He spoke of a planet connected by invisible waves of energy, a vast network in which information and voices would travel instantly across oceans and continents. He foresaw that distance would no longer matter, because technology would collapse the barriers of space and time.

“When wireless is perfectly applied,” Tesla said, “the whole Earth will be converted into a huge brain. 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… 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.”

Nearly a century later, his vision has come to life. We hold in our hands the very tools he imagined — slim devices that allow us to see, hear, and share our lives across the globe in real time. Smartphones, video calls, streaming media, the vast interconnected system we call the Internet — all of it reflects Tesla’s astonishing foresight.

Tesla was more than an inventor. He was a dreamer who saw the shape of tomorrow with clarity that few of his time could grasp. His words remind us that the technologies we now take for granted were once beyond imagination, and that human progress often begins with someone daring to see farther than the rest.