About Listening to Lightning – My Conversation with Nikola Tesla by K. Orion
What if you could summon Nikola Tesla—not as a ghost, but as a voice shaped by history, imagination, and the emerging power of generative AI?
Listening to Lightning is a daring thought experiment: a speculative dialogue with one of history’s most enigmatic minds, created through the lens of modern machine intelligence. In this second edition, the experiment deepens—refined, clarified, and expanded.
What’s New in This Edition:
– A fully reimagined opening chapter that situates Tesla’s solitude and brilliance within the arc of his life.
– Short cinematic setups before each question to provide historical and emotional grounding.
– Verified Tesla epigraphs replace fictional lines, restoring his authentic cadence.
– “Tesla & Today” reflections connect his dilemmas to ours—from platform power to AI ethics.
– A visual timeline now flows with the narrative, highlighting key milestones.
– A sharper, more cohesive final exchange, including Tesla’s “six questions to us.”
– A new Afterword: Why Tesla Faded and Why He’s Returning.
This is not a biography. Nor is it fiction. It’s a modern encounter—across time and signal—with a mind that still crackles with energy, urgency, and unfinished questions.
Let the current flow.
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Author Bio:
Kiran Susarla writes under the pen name K. Orion, a voice chosen not to obscure identity, but to reflect the boundary between fact and thought experiment.
A technologist by profession and a storyteller by instinct, he is drawn to the minds that imagined beyond their time and the fragile line between brilliance and burden. His work lives at the intersection of innovation, ethics, and cultural memory – where artificial intelligence becomes a lens for deeper reflection rather than replication.
This project began not in a lab or studio, but with a quiet question: What if we could speak—across time—to someone like Nikola Tesla?
He leads AI-centered initiatives focused on responsible innovation, policy design, and the ethical frontiers of emerging technologies in addition to other areas such as Quality Assurance and DevOps. He writes not to answer, but to listen.