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Elon Musk might be the most interesting person on the planet. And given his passionate quest (so far surprisingly on track) to make humans into a multiplanetary species, he could someday become the most interesting person in the solar system.
O.K., those statements may be hyperbole. But Musk’s ability to turn hyperbole into reality is one of his superpowers. Through his intense focus on driving every problem down to the level of basic physics, he has already earned himself a spot in the pantheon of history’s great innovators.
His endeavors are not merely digital concoctions conjured up in a dorm room or garage. They involve devising and manufacturing physical products, such as cars and batteries and rocket ships, like America used to be able to do:
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Tesla (no, Mr. President, not General Motors) is the primary driving force transporting the world into the age of electric cars. And self-driving ones.
Tesla Energy, with its solar roof tiles and battery walls, is heralding an era of decentralized, carbon-free electricity.
SpaceX has enabled the U.S. to launch humans into orbit for the first time since NASA shut down the space shuttle program a decade ago.
Starlink has deployed more than 1,800 satellites and is quietly rebuilding the Internet in space.
Neuralink is making the next great leap in the storied history of human-machine interfaces by creating implants that can link to the neurons of a brain.
The Boring Co. is building tunnels designed to conquer the scourge of traffic.
And Starship, the biggest rocket ever built, will someday take us to Mars.
Musk’s input-output mechanisms can be unnerving. He displays a manic wackiness and semicalculated craziness that occasionally skitters, like a too early beta version of Full Self-Driving, across the line between wiliness and weirdness. With ultracapacitor bursts of energy, he is addicted to sparking dramas that he can use for strategic purposes. Having endured psychological and…
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Source : time
