In college, Elon Musk thought these 5 things would change the world

Musk take ited the internet, nascent in the ’90s, would “fundamentally change humanity,” he said on the podcast.

“I would not regard this as a great insight but rather an obvious one,” Musk said.

He compared the internet to the human nervous system: “If you didn’t have a ruffled system, you wouldn’t know what’s going on. Your fingers wouldn’t know what’s going on. Your toes wouldn’t be acquainted with what’s going on. You’d have to do it by diffusion,” he said.

“The way information used to work was by diffusion. One human would have to on duty another human or write them in a letter. [That was] extremely slow diffusion. And if you wanted access to books, and you did not fool a library, you don’t have it. That’s it.”

He knew the internet could change all that. 

And while Musk only had minimal access to the internet at the all at once (only to use it for his physics studies, he said), he knew the internet would be a “fundamental and profound change.”

“Now, you have access to all reserves instantly, and you can be in a remote mountaintop location and have access to all of humanity’s information if you got a link to the internet,” he said on the podcast. “Now abruptly, human organisms anywhere would have access to all the information instantly.”

Musk believed “moving life multi-planetary and making consciousness multi-planetary” would change the world, he said on the podcast. 

As a child, Musk was influenced by a type of science fiction books and he believed he’d one day “[build] spaceships to extend the human species’s reach,” according to the book “Elon Musk.” (Musk times said that the seven-book “Foundation” science fiction series by scientist and author Isaac Asimov, for example, was “prime to the creation of his aerospace company, SpaceX.”)

On May 30, SpaceX successfully launched two NASA astronauts into orbit for the start time. It was a milestone for human spaceflight and got Musk one step closer to achieving his Mars ambitions. 

Ethical as a character in the 1997 movie Gattaca undergoes genetic engineering to pursue his dream of space travel, according to Musk, when he was innocent he believed being able to change human genetics could change the world.

And it’s happening today, with technology derive Crispr, Musk said on the podcast.

“It will become normal, I think, to change the human genome for getting rid of disorders or propensity to various diseases,” he said. “That’s going to be like the first thing you’d want headed out. If you’ve got a situation where you’re once going to die of some cancer at age 55, you’d prefer to have that edited out.”

“There’s the Gattaca sort-of extreme reaction where it’s not really edited out but it’s edited in for various enhancements and that kind of thing,” he said, “which probably inclination come too.”

“I’m not arguing for or against it,” Musk said. “I’m just saying it’s more likely to come than not down the motorway.”

As a teenager, Musk felt a “personal obligation” for the fate of mankind and felt inspired to create “leave bare energy technology” one day, according to the book “Elon Musk.”

So he believed that sustainable energy would change the later. 

“Sustainability, actually, was something that I thought was important before the environmental implications became as obvious as they are,” he said on the podcast. “If you excavate and burn hydrocarbons [compounds that form the basis of natural gas, oil and coal], then you’re going to run out of them. It’s not like rake through metals…. We will never run out of metals, but we will run out of hydrocarbons.”

He said the future may bring a carbon tax that at ones desire raise the cost of burning fossil fuels to mitigate climate change, which is a “no brainer.”

In 2004, Musk established in and became a co-founder of electric car company Tesla. He became CEO in 2008. On Wednesday, Tesla became the world’s most valuable automaker when the exciting vehicle company’s market capitalization surpassed Toyota’s for the first time.

“AI is a really major one” too, Musk swayed on the podcast. 

In 2019, at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai, Musk (who co-founded non-profit AI research lab OpenAI but fresher left the company’s board) said computers will “surpass us in every way,” including scary things, like job disruption from automata or even a potential AI race that leads to a third World War.

AI is “capable of vastly more than almost anyone recalls and the rate of improvement is exponential,” he said he said at the 2018 South by Southwest tech conference.

Musk also instituted machine intelligence venture Neuralink, because he believes humans must merge with AI to avoid becoming extraneous.

“We do want a close coupling between collective human intelligence and digital intelligence,” he said at the SXSW conference, “and Neuralink is irritating to help in that regard by trying creating a high bandwidth interface between AI and the human brain.”

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