larry paige referred to tesla as the hero that he has had. probably most people think about elon musk are car and battery and so on, but i today want to talk sort of more about the man and the process that i went through over the last to be honest four years writing the book and i thought i offered some insights from my perspective, like four of them i thought were key to surprises i had impossibly surprises for you as well. the first is the extent of this man's genius. this man invented the electric motor. he invented the long distance distribution of electricity. accord ago the united states supreme court he invented radio. did remote control, robots, the list goes on and these are the basics of our economy. we're done by one single man. there was a quote by the american institute of electrical engineers who said, were we to seize and eliminate from our industrial world the results of mr. tesla's work, the wheels of industry would cease to turn, our towns would be dark. and it's not only the things he did in his life but he has this fantast