Imagine a man who almost a century ago, sitting in a hotel room in New York without the internet, television and smartphones, described the world in which we live today.

Nikola Tesla was not only a brilliant inventor but also a man whose predictions about the future are today almost disturbingly precise.

Long before the advent of modern technology, he spoke of devices we would carry in our pockets, robots that would replace people, wireless energy transmission and machines that would connect the entire world.

For this reason, Tesla's forecasts are increasingly being re-analyzed to see how the world could look by 2035, reports Krstarica.

Smartphones were Tesla's idea back in 1926

As early as 1926, Tesla spoke in an interview with Collier's magazine about a world in which people would communicate with each other via small devices.

He claimed that with the help of such an apparatus, a person would be able to exchange voice and images with others regardless of distance.

It is particularly fascinating that he said the device would be carried in the pocket of a vest.

At a time when only wire-connected telephones existed, such an idea seemed completely unbelievable.

Today that device is called a smartphone.

Tesla warned about ecology long before everyone else

Tesla also spoke about environmental pollution in the 1930s.

In 1935, he warned that polluted beaches would seem equally unimaginable to future generations as life without running water seems to us.

Only a few decades later did the world begin to seriously talk about nature protection and the establishment of environmental institutions.

Many today believe that Tesla understood long before others how important the relationship between man and nature would become as a question for the future.

Robots and artificial intelligence are already changing the world

In the same period, Tesla predicted that robots would take over much of human labor.

Today artificial intelligence, automated factories and humanoid robots are no longer part of science fiction but a reality that is rapidly changing the labor market.

Companies around the world are already developing machines capable of performing jobs that once only humans could do.

More and more experts warn that the coming years will bring enormous changes in the way we live and work.

Visions that today sound almost eerie

Among Tesla's predictions were ideas that even today seem unreal.

He spoke of:

- wireless energy transmission without cables,

- flying machines that use a new type of propulsion,

- direct transmission of events into people's homes,

- a world in which knowledge is more important than war,

- a society in which women have a dominant intellectual role.

Many of these predictions today already have their first outlines through modern technologies, the internet and the development of artificial intelligence.

The most eerie prediction concerned the human mind

One of Tesla's most unusual forecasts concerned the possibility of "reading thoughts".

He claimed that one day images from the human brain could be transmitted to a screen and analyzed.

At the time he said this, such an idea seemed completely impossible.

However, modern companies developing brain-computer interface technologies are already experimenting with decoding brain signals and converting thoughts into text or movements on screen.

For this reason, many today believe that this is precisely one of Tesla's most disturbing predictions.

Why Tesla's forecasts continue to attract attention today

Nikola Tesla did not claim that he could see the future through supernatural abilities.

He observed the development of technology and tried to understand the direction in which civilization would move.

It is precisely for this reason that his words sound so convincing even today.

Many things he described almost a hundred years ago are now part of everyday life, and some predictions could become reality by 2035.