Vision of wireless communications
"As soon as [the Wardenclyffe plant is] completed, it will be possible for
a business man in New York to dictate instructions, and have them
instantly appear in type at his office in London or elsewhere. He will be
able to call up, from his desk, and talk to any telephone subscriber on
the globe, without any change whatever in the existing equipment.
An inexpensive instrument, not bigger than a watch, will enable
its bearer to hear anywhere, on sea or land, music or song, the speech
of a political leader, the address of an eminent man of science, or
the sermon of an eloquent clergyman, delivered in some other place,
however distant. In the same manner any picture, character, drawing,
or print can be transferred from one to another place ..."
Nikola Tesla, “The Future of the Wireless Art,” Wireless Telegraphy &
Telephony, 1908, pp. 67-71.