After Tesla left Colorado Springs in January 1900 to return to New York City, he wrote a sensational article for Century Magazine in which he eagerly described his plans for a future where we could tap the sun’s energy, control the weather with electricity, end war with machines that would make it an impossibility, wirelessly transmit power and radio signals around the entire globe, engage in interplanetary communications, and even construct robotic “automatons” that would conduct themselves independent of operators.
