“The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.” ― Nikola Tesla

Je n'ai pas la bosse des dates.
Merci à Denise de me rappeler l'anniversaire de naissance de Tesla aujourd'hui. Il me hante depuis quelques années mais, c'est à l'automne dernier que j'ai commencé mes lectures à son sujet. Sa date de naissance, je ne m'en souvenais pas. J'imaginais plutôt un concept pour illustrer la naissance de cet esprit inventif rare. Il n'y avait pas de Google Doodle pour Nikola aujourd'hui. Ils l'ont déjà fait, oui, mais tant qu'à ne rien mettre pour le 10 juillet, ils auraientt pu récidiver. Y'a pas que Turing, LE père de l'informatique ! Tesla a beaucoup contribué à l'ère de l'informatique avec brevets à l'appui.

"I treated the whole field broadly, not limiting myself to mechanisms controlled from distance but to machines possessed of their own intelligence.  Since that time I had advanced greatly in the evolution of the invention and think that the time is not distant when I shall show an automaton which, left to itself, will act as though possessed of reason and without any wilful control from the outside.  Whatever be the practical possibilities of such and acheivement, it will mark the beginning of a new epoch in mechanics." - Nikola Tesla from his 1890s letter to Professsor B. F. Meissner of Purdue University.

Par contre, et pour différentes raisons, Forbes était à jour.
C'est tout contraire à l'idéalogie de Tesla d'offrir, à coût minime, un bien-être pour tous.

Depuis peu, mes recherches sous "images" dans Google pour Tesla me donnent des photos de chars. À peine deux mois je dirais. Une traînée de poudre !

Ça ne te dirais pas de revenir, Nikola ?
J'aimerais bien avoir mon suit qui me permettrais de voler par mon unique pensée.

Homochromie

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Les pauvres ont Perry

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Extrait du débat entre Brian Williams et Rick Perry :

WILLIAMS: Governor Perry, a question about Texas. Your state has executed 234 death row inmates, more than any other governor in modern times. Have you...

(APPLAUSE)

Have you struggled to sleep at night with the idea that any one of those might have been innocent?

PERRY: No, sir. I've never struggled with that at all. The state of Texas has a very thoughtful, a very clear process in place of which -- when someone commits the most heinous of crimes against our citizens, they get a fair hearing, they go through an appellate process, they go up to the Supreme Court of the United States, if that's required.

But in the state of Texas, if you come into our state and you kill one of our children, you kill a police officer, you're involved with another crime and you kill one of our citizens, you will face the ultimate justice in the state of Texas, and that is, you will be executed.

WILLIAMS: What do you make of...

(APPLAUSE)

What do you make of that dynamic that just happened here, the mention of the execution of 234 people drew applause?

PERRY: I think Americans understand justice. I think Americans are clearly, in the vast majority of -- of cases, supportive of capital punishment. When you have committed heinous crimes against our citizens -- and it's a state-by-state issue, but in the state of Texas, our citizens have made that decision, and they made it clear, and they don't want you to commit those crimes against our citizens. And if you do, you will face the ultimate justice.

Le Monde.fr, 10 sept. 2011

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