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The coming of “The Age of Abundance”…for everyone – Elon Musk
Recently Elon Musk sat down with TED Talks founder, Chris Anderson. The nearly one hour interview was recorded live at TED2022 on April 14, 2022. It is well worth your time to listen in.
Your mind will be stretched just thinking of Musk’s own mind, and you will be left with a feeling of hope for mankind now and into the future.
Some comments in the interview:
Climate catastrophe – “I’m not one of the doomsday people. I actually think we are on a good path. So long as we are not complacent and have a high sense of urgency moving toward a sustainable economy, then we will be fine. The future’s going to be great. Don’t worry about it – or it will become a sustainable prophecy.”
Energy – It will be primarily solar and wind. I’m pro-nuclear. We will need battery packs. Electric transport. We can have a fully sustainable energy economy. Limiting factor will be battery cell issues.
People should be optimistic about the future. The future is bright and good from an energy viewpoint.
To solve driverless transport we must solve real world AI.
We have a computer in our pocket – some day we’ll have a computer buddy in our home, a butler, even a catgirl.
We’re really just monkeys with a computer stuck in our brain.
AI – For a decade we will solve brain injuries – then we will move beyond.
Space – Starship is extremely fundamental now. 2029 will be a target date for a man on Mars. Then every 2 years, hundreds will leave for Mars with tickets in the low hundreds of thousands. Goal is to build a self-sustaining city with a million people. Mars will not be luxurious – it will be cramped, hard work, dangerous, you might not make it back, etc. We want to become a multi-planet species.
Musk’s networth is hundreds of billions of dollars, which varies on every given day by billions.
“I try to work on [ideas] – every high quality moment of thinking – is worth a million dollars – I work to the edge of insanity.”
To those who hate billionaires: “I don’t own a home. I don’t take vacations. I basically rotate among people’s spare bedrooms. I don’t have a yacht. I don’t have high personal consumption. I do have a plane, but if I don’t use a plane, I would have less hours to work.”
Philanthropy is love of humanity. Tesla, SpaceX, Boring Company, Neuralink are all “philanthropy” by that definition.
Musk is a father of 7, all boys. His first child died of SIDS at 10 weeks. He and his wife, Justine (they are now divorced) went on to have, by IVF, twin sons Griffin and Xavier, born in 2004, and then triplet sons Kai, Saxon, and Damian, in 2006. He and singer, Grimes, had a son named “X” in 2020, and a girl named “Y” in 2022 by surrogate.
“I want to think about the future – and not be sad.”
Population collapse is a major issue – the birth rate is far below what is needed to sustain civilization.
If you want the future to be good, you must make it so. Take action – to make it good. And it will be.
Twitter palooza and poison pills
Elon Musk became a considerable stock owner of Twitter, then refused a position on the board. He is now offering to buy the entire company. Musk pledges to return it to a true service to the first amendment and refuse all but the most serious case edits needed. The company is choosing a “poison pill” strategy to put it off. Here, Shark Tank’s “Mr. Wonderful” talks about what worst case scenario – what happens if Musk walks away?