How Elon musk and his companies are changing the future of mankind
Elon Musk has changed the world in many ways.
He is known for being the head of Tesla Motors, SpaceX and SolarCity.
His companies have made it possible to travel around Earth without consuming fossil fuels,
going into space, or harnessing solar power.
Elon's work with Tesla helped bring electric cars to mainstream markets across North America
and Europe.
With his company SpaceX, he has been able to make access more affordable for private
citizens who want to explore deep space and now they are looking at how they can colonize
Mars!
As The CEO of his company SpaceX, he has made investment decisions that change the course
of history for many generations to come.And then there's SolarCity which helps families
be less dependent on electricity from traditional utilities that may not always be reliable
or affordable.
All these innovations have led him to become one of the most influential people in our
time.
Elon Musk as a leader is one who looks into the future and plans ahead for what could
happen if it does not take action today.
He also invests in things that other firms might be too scared or conservative to invest
in at this time.
Elon Musk's investments are often risky but they pay off because he knows how to make
them work out well when others would not dare do so!
But how are his companies transforming and redefining the future?
Well that’s what we are going to discuss in this video and explain to you the role
of each of his companies in transforming humanity.
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“Transforming the future”, this is the term we often hear from companies.
But we all know that's marketing.
But if we talk about the Internet, it is a technology that has really transformed humanity.
Google’s search engine crawls through millions of web pages and brings us the best relevant
result in just a matter of seconds and has truly transformed humanity.
But this video isn’t about Google, it's about how Elon Musk’s companies will bring
the change.
Well let’s talk about his most famous venture and the one for which he is really known for-
SpaceX.
He is the first man in history to bring a space company into profitability.
SpaceX was founded in 2002 by Elon Musk with the goal of reducing space transportation
costs to enable the colonization of Mars.
Since then, SpaceX has launched rockets 126 times.
That's an extraordinary achievement for any aerospace organisation.
The company's new project, known as Starship, is an interplanetary transport system that
could take humans "to the furthest reaches of our solar system."
The implications for improving humanity are profound and exciting.
Elon Musk has proven himself time and again to be a true visionary who thinks way beyond
what most people would consider possible.
We can't wait to see how he changes our world in the coming years!
SpaceX laid the foundation for the new space race of the decade which has received an amazing
support and enthusiasm from people all around the world.SpaceX has some amazing achievements
like being the first private company to launch astronauts into space or make rockets reusable
to decrease the cost of space transportation.
You can ask the question: why is this important?
Well because earlier space was very expensive.
NASA's space shuttle program was revolutionary as it was the first major step at regularising
space travel and introducing the concept of rocket reusability however one realm in which
it was now revolutionary was cost despite one of the main promises of the space shuttle
being cheaper space flight like with most other government sponsored programs this space
shuttle program fell flat on its face clocking in at a total of 209 billion dollars or 1.6
billion dollars per launch, to put this in perspective the SpaceX crew dragon costs 209
million dollars per launch meaning that with the 209 billion dollars nasa could have launched
1000 crew dragons as opposed to the 134 space shuttle flights.
SpaceX is also aiming to push down the cost of starship to 2 million dollars.
So this is truly transformative from a private company.
But this is just the tip of the iceberg.
SpaceX aims at making travel between countries as easy as traveling from one city to another
by car or train today.
Can you imagine being able to fly from New York City to Shanghai in 39 minutes or Sydney
to London in an hour.
Seems far-fetched right?
But this is something Elon and SpaceX are working on.
Elon compares Space Rockets to airplanes saying that if you do not reuse a plane, it would
cost up to 250 million dollars to fly one way but because we can reuse them tens of
thousands of times, it becomes affordable.
The same is true for Space Rockets.
A SpaceX rocket costs about 57 million dollars and if the rocket is reused a thousand times
it nearly costs 57 thousand dollars per flight and by carrying people, we can get the price
of a rocket flight down to the price of an economy flight ticket.
The starship rocket is being developed to take people to mars, it can also transport
people from city to city.
In an interview in 2017 Elon said he is working to make this a reality in the next 10 years
and if you can carry people, you can carry cargo too for a superfast delivery.
Another way of getting packages fast from one part of the country to another will be
by Electric semi trucks being developed by Tesla.
These semi trucks require a driver but in the future we will see entirely driverless
versions of these and making deliveries and making the transportation cheaper.
Also these trucks will be good for the environment because 25% of greenhouse gases come from
the trucking industry.
Tesla is building Giga-factories which make lithium ion batteries along with other parts
for Tesla cars.
Elon believes it would take a total of 100 Giga factories to give humanity enough battery
capacity to go fully renewable.
Currently there are two Giga factories in the United States and one in China.
Tesla has announced plans for another Giga factory in Germany.
And that’s not it.
With his other company- The Boring company Elon plans to develop transportation via HyperLoop.
HyperLoop is significant as it will be cheap, fast, crash protected and immune to anty kind
of weather.
To make this possible Elon is working on the idea of Hyperloop, which will take about 12
minutes to travel from Dubai to Abu Dhabi and will also be powered by solar panels.
There will be Hyperloop stations inside cities, making it easier and faster to travel.
There are several Hyperloop routes being planned and in the coming future they will be a major
subject of attraction.
Musk has proposed a series of overlapping tunnel networks, which will transport people
across cities, countries and continents on “skate” platforms or through its new electric
transport system ‘Hyperloop’.
This may seem like sci-fi but it's happening.
The boring company is already in agreements with cities.
The first Loop will be built in Las Vegas for the massive convention centre which hosts
the Consumer Electronics show every January.
The Boring company plans to end the problem of traffic.
Since then Elon Musk’s Boring company is all over the news as the next big smart city
technology with a potential to completely transform the face of urban transportation
by, quite simply, placing it all underground.
But why place it all in tunnels and underground?
Normally when you imagine the future you think about flying cars as shown in many sci-fi
movies.
But Elon Musk differs with the idea of flying cars.
In a TED interview when he was asked about his vision for an exciting future he rejected
the idea of flying cars and drones saying no one would like to see cars flying over
us and creating all kinds of disturbances.
Elon is right in many ways, he said that one of the most soul-destroying thing is the traffic
and if there is traffic in the air or cars that would block the view of the sky, would
be affected by weather and many other factors, that would not be an ideal future city you
would want.
To counter this traffic problem that takes away so much of our lives, he has planned
to build a 3-D network of tunnels.He believes the solution to the urban traffic is the network
of tunnels that go deeper under the cities.
He says, “since you can always go deeper than you can go upwards, that the deepest
mines are deeper than the tallest buildings.”
SO we can have a network of tunnels that could go 20, 30 or 40 levels deep where cars could
go up to 200 kilometres an hour as railings guide the car and your autopilot takes over
when you enter the tunnel.
In such a future with these amazing companies transportation is fast and cheap.
But there is still one aspect of connectivity left, The Internet!!
Earlier we mentioned the revolution brought by the Internet.
The Internet tells people about their rights, what's actually going on and helps them attain
democracy.
And democracies are important for humanity to avoid wars.
But don't worry, Elon has got your back there too.
With his project Stralink, a project by SpaceX which aims to launch nearly 12000 satellites
in orbit which will provide internet all across the world and even in places where people
don’t have internet today, Elon plans to get internet to everyone.
SpaceX launched the first batch of StarLink satellites in 2019.
As of today, more than 1700 starlink satellites have been launched by SpaceX.
And to further this vision of providing connectivity and internet to all, Starlink will not only
be deployed on Earth but also will be deployed as a communication system around Mars.
Also, Elon’s brother Kimbal Musk who is a board member of Tesla and SpaceX is also
the co-founder of Square roots, a company that is building shipping container vertical
farms in towns and cities, as this is a more feasible way of growing food.
We would get our greens from farm to table in merely 4 hours and Kimball says that the
tech being used today to farm food in climate-controlled city spaces will also be used on Mars!
Imagine when you are dropped off at your office by your self-driving car.
It's amazing right?
But what about Human intelligence and humanity as we progress into the future.
Well Elon has thought of that too.
Elon says that we are building progressively greater intelligence and that the percentage
of intelligence that is not human is increasing.
Elon says we can think of human as a biological boot loader for starting a digital super-intelligence,
so there need to be some merger which links biological intelligence with machine intelligence,
since in the future we will be too slow to keep up with AI and so we would have to develop
or there will be a crisis in the future.
To fix this problem, Elon Musk has come up with a technology of future- NeuraLink.
He founded this company in 2016, and the company is making a chip that will be implanted in
the brain allowing you to be linked with the computer.
So far, a monkey has been able to control a computer with its brain.
Neuralink is in talks with authorities for starting a human trial in the coming years.
Neuralink will give humans some amazing potential of thinking and gaining information especially
in this data driven world.
But Summing all of this up, Elon Musk and his companies will effectively change the
world in the future.
They wouldn't be the only one though, but they laid the foundation for these ideas.
The rate of change of technology is incredibly fast, and every new decade is one that no
one had imagined in the previous decade.
Elon musk is very much motivated to work for the long-term well being of humans and to
inspire many others of the new generation so that we could all advance as a civilization
and become a type 3 civilization.
SpaceX will colonize Mars with human beings while Tesla electric cars drive us on earth
free of fossil fuels (Musk)- NeuraLink wants mankind to make use of 100% of their brain
power which will take us to new levels of consciousness.
So what do you think about these amazing companies of Elon?
Which one is your favorite and inspires you the most?
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