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IamLEAM1983
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In my universe, Tesla died poor, unrecognized and generally ignored by the scientific community. To make matters worse, Edison stole a bunch of his patents, too! We're only starting to have a grip on electricity that goes further than your basic Alternating Current stuff. What happened, specifically, that saved your Tesla from biting it in the courtroom? While we're at it, is your Wizard of Menlo Park as celebrated as ours, or were things adjusted?
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As Vladimir Kulich
"What helped Tesla was the fact that his developed technologies were in line with my ancestors' own technical prowess. While everyone between America and Europe was busy treating his free-flowing electrical designs like sideshow act material, we paid attention. Anastasius, especially, paid attention.
Native Karthians don't understand why we limit ourselves with fuse boxes and circuits designed to blow at the slightest spike, or even with power lines of any kind. Back on Telor, everything is harvested directly from the colony's electromagnetic spectrum and everything data-based flows along with it. Tesla called it electrical information, you'd call it the next step after fiber-optic lines fizzle out. We'll all be forced to admit Tesla's influence in more ways than one a few decades from now, but alternating current is a concept that's engendered an entire industry. Just as the oil barons of Saudi Arabia killed the first few electric car models in the womb, back in the nineties, worldwide energy consortiums will find ways to exclude wireless transmission from the list of green technologies. It'll last for as long as we'll have factories willing to produce copper wiring or dependent on its production. It'll last for as long as the field of quantum computing is pushed aside in favor of developing the comparatively cheaper, if obsolete silicon chip models.
Thomas Edison is understood to be a sort of early patent troll, here in Hope. He had some decent ideas and, like it or not, alternating current was a step in the right direction, but some of his explorations in that field would skirt the boundaries of modern ethics. He electrocuted animals as a means of understanding electricity's potential as a means of pacification, and patented virtually everything he stumbled across that hadn't been officially commercialized. Tesla, on the other hand, looked to the period's mechanical automatons and saw people in need of increased freedom, of means of remaining active that would emulate normal mortal routines, like sleeping or eating. He saw how being made of metal and gears could erode at a person's soul, and convinced as he was that all living things carried an electrical charge, vowed to find a way to bring that literal spark of life to the Clanks.
In our world, Tesla adopted a young Karthian once his health began to fail. Grigori stepped in Nikola's shoes and continued working in his adoptive father's footsteps and turned the name into a recognizable brand. Edison, however, spoke the language of businessmen, and he knew how to market alternating current as a less daunting alternative to Tesla's offerings. In the end, America made the same choice it made in your universe; relegating Tesla's genius to a third-rate car and armature production company.
Today, however, things are changing. We're close to hitting the maximum tolerance of silicon-based processors, and traditional green energies aren't seen as profitable or sufficiently risk-free. Old designs for self-perpetuating reactors are being explored, and in 2025, Tesla Motors and Elon Musk are right alongside American automotive giants, like Chrysler or General Motors. That alone is what's revitalized Detroit, for instance, as that husk of a city eventually became a turning point for not only self-perpetuating electrical cars, but also for sustainable technologies. There's skyscraper designs, out in Michigan, that Hope still has yet to see. Self-sufficient apartment towers that allow for luxurious living spaces at affordable prices and that cut back on grocery bills almost entirely, thanks to community-managed garden floors and loft-sized biofuel tanks...
I don't often express pride towards my people. We've done terrible things to people, as mister Holden could testify, and it took us far too long to understand that Earth wasn't Telor. We had no right to expect to wrest the way it works, socio-politically, to fit our expectations. In Tesla's case, however, we did some good. The Wizard of Menlo Park's reputation received a sobering addendum, and you'll sometimes see strange-looking antennas around Hope, where you'd normally find power lines. With less pylons along the highways outside of town, we're graced with more green spaces and more readily accessible urban development areas.
I'd say Tesla's works and my people's habits regarding conservation worked hand-in-hand. That's possible thanks to the public and scientific community's open-mindedness, especially after the Vienna Accords were drafted."
Native Karthians don't understand why we limit ourselves with fuse boxes and circuits designed to blow at the slightest spike, or even with power lines of any kind. Back on Telor, everything is harvested directly from the colony's electromagnetic spectrum and everything data-based flows along with it. Tesla called it electrical information, you'd call it the next step after fiber-optic lines fizzle out. We'll all be forced to admit Tesla's influence in more ways than one a few decades from now, but alternating current is a concept that's engendered an entire industry. Just as the oil barons of Saudi Arabia killed the first few electric car models in the womb, back in the nineties, worldwide energy consortiums will find ways to exclude wireless transmission from the list of green technologies. It'll last for as long as we'll have factories willing to produce copper wiring or dependent on its production. It'll last for as long as the field of quantum computing is pushed aside in favor of developing the comparatively cheaper, if obsolete silicon chip models.
Thomas Edison is understood to be a sort of early patent troll, here in Hope. He had some decent ideas and, like it or not, alternating current was a step in the right direction, but some of his explorations in that field would skirt the boundaries of modern ethics. He electrocuted animals as a means of understanding electricity's potential as a means of pacification, and patented virtually everything he stumbled across that hadn't been officially commercialized. Tesla, on the other hand, looked to the period's mechanical automatons and saw people in need of increased freedom, of means of remaining active that would emulate normal mortal routines, like sleeping or eating. He saw how being made of metal and gears could erode at a person's soul, and convinced as he was that all living things carried an electrical charge, vowed to find a way to bring that literal spark of life to the Clanks.
In our world, Tesla adopted a young Karthian once his health began to fail. Grigori stepped in Nikola's shoes and continued working in his adoptive father's footsteps and turned the name into a recognizable brand. Edison, however, spoke the language of businessmen, and he knew how to market alternating current as a less daunting alternative to Tesla's offerings. In the end, America made the same choice it made in your universe; relegating Tesla's genius to a third-rate car and armature production company.
Today, however, things are changing. We're close to hitting the maximum tolerance of silicon-based processors, and traditional green energies aren't seen as profitable or sufficiently risk-free. Old designs for self-perpetuating reactors are being explored, and in 2025, Tesla Motors and Elon Musk are right alongside American automotive giants, like Chrysler or General Motors. That alone is what's revitalized Detroit, for instance, as that husk of a city eventually became a turning point for not only self-perpetuating electrical cars, but also for sustainable technologies. There's skyscraper designs, out in Michigan, that Hope still has yet to see. Self-sufficient apartment towers that allow for luxurious living spaces at affordable prices and that cut back on grocery bills almost entirely, thanks to community-managed garden floors and loft-sized biofuel tanks...
I don't often express pride towards my people. We've done terrible things to people, as mister Holden could testify, and it took us far too long to understand that Earth wasn't Telor. We had no right to expect to wrest the way it works, socio-politically, to fit our expectations. In Tesla's case, however, we did some good. The Wizard of Menlo Park's reputation received a sobering addendum, and you'll sometimes see strange-looking antennas around Hope, where you'd normally find power lines. With less pylons along the highways outside of town, we're graced with more green spaces and more readily accessible urban development areas.
I'd say Tesla's works and my people's habits regarding conservation worked hand-in-hand. That's possible thanks to the public and scientific community's open-mindedness, especially after the Vienna Accords were drafted."