Don’t give up your old car

In the near future: The car’s AI surveillance camera says, „I have detected a passenger in your car whose social credit score is too low. You are not allowed to transport this passenger. Tell him to exit the car.” You: „Car, please take me to the Patriot Convention.” Car: „Sorry, Dave. I can’t do that.” Car: „Please confirm that you have received your monthly injection before using this car.” Car: „I have detected that you haven’t paid your taxes yet. I cannot drive you across the border.” Car: „You seem agitated today, Dave. I can’t let you drive this car.” Car: „Please blow into this tube to prove that your blood alcohol content meets the required standard before I can activate the car.” When you lose control over your tools and appliances, you also lose control over your life. Now you know why car scrap yards are going up in flames all over the place: they don’t want you to maintain your old car. You haven’t seen anything yet; this is just the beginning.

Nikola Tesla, Free Energy, and the Aether

John G. Trump

Review of Tesla papers

Following the death of Nikola Tesla in January 1943, the U.S. Office of Alien Property Custodian requested Trump’s support to examine the notes, papers, and artifacts left by the inventor.[34] Tesla had offered the U.S. Army a license to unspecified secret weapons, and officials believed his belongings might contain designs for a promised high-voltage „death ray.” Tesla had bequeathed the items to his nephew, a Yugoslavian government official.[34] OAPC was reluctant to send them to a Nazi-occupied country without prior review.[34][35]

Then a government employee, Trump was called upon for his expertise in direct-current electrical equipment, which overlapped Tesla’s work. After a three-day investigation in Manhattan, Trump reported in a classified memo to OAPC that the materials had neither military value to the United States nor would „constitute a hazard in unfriendly hands.”[34] In the memo, Trump expressed admiration for Tesla’s well-known inventions, but assessed that his late-career ideas were „somewhat promotional” and „did not include new sound workable principles or methods.

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