IEEE Spectrum February, 2014 - 26
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POnDERIng ThE FUTURE: Underneath the
statue of the man who made AC power practical,
a time capsule contains cards with predictions of
what the next decades will bring.
and more, but because of his modesty;
they believe he was far more interested
in moving society forward than in
accumulating wealth.
In May 2013, one Tesla fan, Dorrian
Porter, launched a Kickstarter campaign to
create a tribute to Tesla to stand in Silicon
Valley, in the belief that the inventor should
be a symbol for the valley's entrepreneurial
spirit. The campaign sought US $123 000
and raised $127 260 from 722 supporters,
including an anonymous $20 000 donation.
The statue, designed by artist Terry
Guyer, rests on land offered by local
building owner Harold Hobach. It contains
a time capsule, to be opened in 30 years,
and a free Wi-Fi hot spot. Greg Leando,
a local banker, says he came because
"Tesla is an inspiration to a lot of young
entrepreneurs. We are at the epicenter
of technology and innovation, so it is a
fitting tribute."
But the Silicon Valley statue isn't
the only marker of renewed interest in
Tesla: In September, a monument went
up at the nascent Tesla Science Center
at Wardenclyffe. This Shoreham, N.Y.,
location is the site of Tesla's Wardenclyffe
Laboratory, which in the early years of the
20th century featured a steampunk-esque
tower intended for wireless electrical
power transmission experiments. The
laboratory buildings fell into disuse,
and the land was in danger of being
commercially developed until an earlier
crowdfunded campaign was launched in
August 2012. Led by cartoonist Matthew
Inman, who has created a number of popular
online infocomics about Tesla on his website
Theoatmeal.com, the campaign raised
$1.3 million, enough to buy the land and start
work on cleaning it up and creating a museum
at the site. -TEkLA S. PERRY
h i s pa s t d e C e m B e r , u n d e r a C r i s p, B l u e
California sky, geeks of all sorts gathered to honor an
inven tor they believe should be the symbol of Silicon
Valley. They were in Palo Alto for the dedication of a statue
to nikola Tesla, the prolific Serbian-born inventor and
engineer who lived between 1856 and 1943 and whose life and work
is the subject of a wave of revived interest. Tesla's new fans say he is
a special figure, not just for the countless advances he made in devel- A version of this article appeared on IEEE
oping alternating current, wireless energy, wireless communications, Spectrum's Tech Talk blog in December.
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all hail niKola tesla!
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