Japman Bajaj

I’m kinda annoyed!

So I’m hang­ing out on Slash­dot right now, and I saw this head­line: Black­Berry Pre­dicted a Cen­tury Ago By Nikola Tesla

Okay. A cen­tury ago? So basi­cally, the guy shared some psy­chotic ideas, and now we’re in mar­vel at his “prophetic abil­i­ties”? Not a CHANCE. I woulda been impressed if he said it would emerge from the south­east­ern tip of a province in Canada, or that it would be named after fruit. But just the descrip­tion he gave doesn’t impress me.

But since the dude got on the front page of Slash­dot, he clearly had the right idea… So… let me go on the record now, so that the world can name bridges and con­ti­nents after me in 200 years:
In some time in the future, home automa­tion will include food. So when you’re done with your apple and all that’s left is the core, you just have to throw it in the air, and it’ll auto­mat­i­cally find its way to the garbage.

There. I said it.

We offi­cially live in a world where prophe­ciz­ing the next 5 years is more dif­fi­cult than prophe­ciz­ing the next cen­tury. Things are chang­ing so fast that hav­ing a spe­cific idea about the near-future is an abil­ity that a hand­ful of awe­some peo­ple have.

But prophe­ciz­ing. Now THAT’S the legacy builder, for sure! If we all just filled out note­books with the most off-the-wall, crazy ideas we could think of, and then pub­lished it online some­where, left a copy in our will for our great great grand­kids… I’m sure we’d be bound to be right on one thing or another. After all, Nos­tradamus prophe­cized the end of the world in 2000, but he’s still a leg­end even though he was wrong.