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Tesla's legacy can be seen across modern civilization wherever electricity is used. Aside from his work on electromagnetism and engineering, Tesla is said to have contributed in varying degrees to the fields of robotics, ballistics, computer science, nuclear physics, and theoretical physics. Many of his achievements have been used, with some controversy, to support various pseudosciences, UFO theories, and New Age occultism. Many contemporary admirers of Tesla have deemed him the man who invented the twentieth century.
 
==Relations, friendships, and personal views==
 
In his middle life, Nikola Tesla became very close friends with [[wikipedia:Samuel Clemens|Mark Twain]]. They spent a lot of time together in his lab and elsewhere. He remained bitter in the aftermath of his incident with Edison. The day after Edison died the New York Times contained extensive coverage of Edison's life, with the only negative opinion coming from Tesla who was quoted as saying, "He had no hobby, cared for no sort of amusement of any kind and lived in utter disregard of the most elementary rules of hygiene" and that, "His method was inefficient in the extreme, for an immense ground had to be covered to get anything at all unless blind chance intervened and, at first, I was almost a sorry witness of his doings, knowing that just a little theory and calculation would have saved him 90 per cent of the labor. But he had a veritable contempt for book learning and mathematical knowledge, trusting himself entirely to his inventor's instinct and practical American sense." As Edison was a very old man, he went as far as to say that looking back, his biggest mistake he had made was never respecting Edison or his work. This did little for their almost non-existent relationship.
 
Tesla believed that war could not be avoided until the cause for its recurrence was removed, but was opposed to [[wikipedia:war|wars]] in general. He had inherited a hatred of war from his parents and homeland, and sought to end warfare systematically by devising protective measures that would prevent wars. He found exceptions and some justifiable situations where conflict was necessary. He envisioned wars of machines, not of humans, and of more terrible weapons in the future. He sought to reduce distance, such as in communication for better understanding, transportation, and transmission of energy, as a means to ensure friendly international relations. A system for "Projecting Concentrated Non-Dispersive Energy Through Natural Media" known as ''[[teleforce]]'' was reportedly developed later in his life. Teleforce was supposed to have been a type of defensive particle-beam weapon.
 
Like many of his era he developped a fondness for eugenics. The earliest clear instances of this are after his obsessive-compulsive disorder had become pronounced. In a curious 1926 interview he indicated humanity's future would be ran by "Queen Bee" like women who'd mate selectively.[http://www.tfcbooks.com/tesla/women.htm]. By February of 1935 he had a pro-eugenics article in ''Liberty'' which was edited by a friend named G. S. Viereck. In a 1937 interview near the end of his life he indicated that "A century from now it will no more occur to a normal person to mate with a person eugenically unfit than to marry a habitual criminal."[http://www.pbs.org/tesla/res/res_art11.html] Although Tesla was noted as an [[wikipedia:eccentricity (behavior)|eccentric]] so some of these ideas are a little hard to place in any eugenicist school of thought.
 
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