Amazing to think how much potential technology was lost due to Tesla being controversially ahead of his time.
Given the relevance to this website's namesake, it has been over 100 years since Nikola Tesla started experimenting with wireless electricity at Wardenclyffe Tower and the world appears now ready to receive this technology.
http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:%20/2007/06/08/wireless-electricity-tesla-would-be-proud/
A group of hopefuls from The Massachusetts Institute of Technology have successfully demonstrated the transfer of electric power through a medium known as air; the process results in what MIT calls WiTricity.
While i don't imagine i would have enjoyed living next to the original wardenclyffe tower, it just proves how far ahead of his time Tesla really was.
Had his original Wardenclyffe technology found a smaller/acceptable scale (such as this MIT's 60watts @ 7Meters) that technological advancement in and of itself would be worthy of history books, but he pretty much invented the AC power tranmission system that we all use today (and that this would be an improvement/enhancement of)! The leap in logic that took him all of maybe a couple years seems to take the rest of us 100 years to accept or understand. I guess it would be like sending this MIT team back in time 100+ years to find a population who live without electricity. (Cue "Candle in the Wind" ... um or 'filament in the current' theme song)
Who knows maybe this isn't even practical yet... unless you can prevent people from stealing it or leaking power causing high electric bills.
Perhaps we need another telsa to fine tune this even more... or another JP Morgan to tell us is a waste of time 