Elon Musk Will Save Us All
May 6, 2016
Update 2022-05-02:
A note from the author: I'm keeping this post here for
posterity, but I would like to state for the record that
my opinions on Mr. Musk have changed. Since posting
this, I learned that while Musk is promoting interesting
and important ideas through his investing, he hasn't
been nearly as involved in the actual creation of these
things as he would like us to believe. If pressed, I
think I'd still say that the publicity and
name-recognition brought to some of his projects is a
net-positive — I doubt for instance that Tesla would've
been as successful without his investment and promotion
— I no longer believe he is as responsible for
"saving us all" as I was when I initially
wrote this.
Also, he has since become something of an internet
troll, which has caused me to lose much respect for him.
I have a theory about Elon Musk: I believe he has foreseen
the inevitable destruction of the human race through its
continued ravaging of the Earth.
Musk plans to have
SpaceX
ready to usher humans off of this planet, and onto another
(Mars? the Moon?). The technology though, is not there yet.
What he needs is more time.
With
Tesla ,
SolarCity ,
The Boring Company , and
his version
of the
Hyperloop concept , he is helping the world become less dependent on fossil
fuels — thereby delaying the inevitable destruction of this
place we call home.
#technology
#environment