by HN Porter of tech4today.net
Elon Musk, the founder of SpaceX and co-founder of Tesla has proven himself to be a man with no limiting believes. Up until today, he has unveiled a concept for a high-speed transportation system Hyperloop, revolutionized electric cars and founded companies (Tesla Motors and SpaceX), that launched a landmark commercial spacecraft in 2012.
So it comes to no surprise that when the billionaire CEO talks, the world listens. In his 2017 TED talk he said:
"I think it's important to have a future that is inspiring and appealing. I just think there have to be reasons that you get up in the morning and you want to live. Like, why do you want to live? What's the point? What inspires you? What do you love about the future?"
Musks practical and careful vision of the future includes human beings living on multiple planets as one of the possible outcomes in a true spirit of an engineer he had the following to say about his method of predicting the future, "I look at the future from the standpoint of probabilities. It's like a branching stream of probabilities, and there are actions that we can take that affect those probabilities or that accelerate one thing or slow down another thing,"
"And if we're not out there if the future does not include being out there among the stars and being a multiplanet species, I find that it's incredibly depressing if that's not the future that we're going to have," the Techpreneur added.
With the commencement of the new year, let us look into there predictions made by Musk for the future:
1. In 7 to 10 years, the first humans will colonize Mars.
In a twitter conversation last November, Musk said it'll be 7 to 10 years until the first group of humans colonizes Mars. He also said he imagines it will be "engineers, artists, and creatives of all kinds" who will go to Mars first.
"It's gonna be hard, there's a good chance of death, going in a little can through deep space, you might land successfully, once you land successfully you'll be working non-stop to build the base — so not much time for leisure — and once you get there, even after all this, there's a very harsh environment, so there's a good chance you'll die there. We think you can come back but we're not sure," Musk told Axios in November.
2. You will be able to connect your brain to computers in 10 years.
Besides Tesla and SpaceX Musk also has a neurotechnology company, Neuralink, which according to its website is "developing ultra-high bandwidth brain-machine interfaces to connect humans and computers,"
Musk told Axios that, "The long-term aspiration with Neuralink would be to achieve symbiosis with artificial intelligence…to achieve a sort of democratization of intelligence, such that it is not monopolistically held in a purely digital form by governments and large corporations,"
That will be done by connecting computer electrodes to neurons in your brain — "a chip and a bunch of tiny wires" that will be "implanted in your skull. I believe this can be done. ... It's probably on the order of a decade," Musk said.
I believe this can be done. ... It's probably on the order of a decade".
"And by the way, you kind of have this already in a weird way: You have a digital tertiary layer in the form of your phone, your computers, your watch. You basically have these computing devices that form a tertiary layer on your cognition already," Musk added, according to Axios.
3. Tesla's 'cyberpunk' pickup truck prototype could be here in 2019.
The Tech CEO has been putting in overtime to wrap up the Model 3 Tesla production, yet he is alreday making hints for new products. In December he tweeted, (sic) "I'm dying to make a pickup truck so bad … we might have a prototype to unveil next year,".
"We've got the pickup truck, which — actually, I'm personally most excited about the pickup truck," Musk told Swisher in October. "It's gonna be like a really futuristic like cyberpunk, 'Blade Runner' pickup truck.It's gonna be awesome, it's gonna be amazing. … This will be heart-stopping. It stops my heart. It's like, oh, it's great."
"It's like I really wanted something that's like super-futuristic cyberpunk. Which, if it doesn't ... if I'm weirdly like ... if there's only a small number of people that like that truck, I guess we'll make a more conventional truck in the future. But it's the thing that I am personally most fired up about. It's gonna have a lot of titanium," He added
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