According to Forbes Elon Musk, the CEO and
founder of Tesla and SpaceX is the most innovative person in the world for the consecutive second
time this year. And that is very clear of the unbelievable success he has achieved in
business. Ten years ago, people considered him a reckless man with extravagant ideas.
In 2008, his company Tesla collapsed during the financial crisis. Now Tesla is one of
the most successful niche car companies in producing electric cars, all due to the fact
that Elon Musk persevered and was determined. He has done what was thought to be impossible
10 years ago. But he has no plans of stopping soon. He has many innovative and wild plans
for the future of mankind which would improve the quality of our lives. Elon Musk believes that day by day the technology
is only getting better and better. Things are developing so fast that the future might
be filled with Exponential tech advances that would change the world. In the future, we
will have video games so realistic that it would be difficult for us to tell the difference
between games and reality. From self driving tunnel networks to brain controlled computers,
we’re going to look at how Elon Musk and his technology will take us forward and creating
the city of the future. Elon says that we always want the future to be better than the
past. A future that is exciting and one that the people would want to live in. A few decades
ago a lot of technological advances seemed unimaginable but today they are our new normal,
life without them is unimaginable. So let’s look at what would Elon Musk’s city of future
look like. So how will we get from one city to another
in Elon’s future city? It’s hard to imagine being able to fly from New York City to Shanghai
in 39 minutes or from Sydney to London in an hour. But this is something that 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 thousand 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 a 2017 interview Elon said that he is working for this to become
a reality in the next 10 years and if you can carry people, you can also carry cargo
which means a super fast delivery for people. 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
version of these and making deliveries and making the transportation cheaper. Also these
trucks will be good for environment because 25% of greenhouse gases come from the trucking
industry. Though these ideas seem far fetched and Elon has planned to make them possible
in the next 10 to 12 years. There is yet another way that Elon plans to develop, and that is
transportation via hyper loop. Elon Musk asks that when you think about a new transportation
system, what would you want ideally? You will want something that would cost half the price
to travel, would be twice as fast, cannot crash and immune to 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 Elon’s future they will be a major subject of attraction. Elon is constantly coming up with new ideas
and innovative technologies that are astonishing. Apart from the ideas discussed above, lets
inspect Elon’s futuristic city. Most people would imagine a future city to be full of
flying cars and drones with state-of-the-art technology. But Elon differs with this vision.
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 air or cars that
would block the view of 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. For this
he has founded a company named The Boring Company that would carry on the construction
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 minds 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.
But creating a tunnel is a slow and expensive process and will require the process of digging
tunnels to be cheap than they are currently. The Boring company is working on to make this
a possibility with a new tunnel digger. Elon says that the first thing that needs to be
done is to cut down the tunnel size. Tunnels today need to be large allowing for crashes
emergency and ventilation for gas powered vehicles. Using self driving electric cars
that will shrink the size of tunnels can eliminate this. To make the digging process efficient,
we need to build a faster digger, one that can dig and reinforce the tunnel at the same
time. This idea of building tunnels is safe and also a one that is would allow people
to live peacefully. A trip from Westwood to LAX Airport which takes 30 minutes and can
increase because of traffic will only take 5 to 6 minutes in a boring company tunnel.
Elon says that in the coming 10 to 12 years it will be unusual for cars to be built that
are not fully self-driving as they are getting close to being 100 to 200 percent safer than
a human driver. He says getting into a car would be just like get into an elevator today
and pushing a button. Electric cars all possible today today because of the falling prices
of the lithium-ion batteries . Batteries are what Tesla’s main expertise is in! 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.
As our cities and lives would become electrified, everything will also be connected. This will
be made possible by StarLink, a project by SpaceX which aims to launch nearly 12000 satellites
in the orbit which will provide internet all across the world and even in places where
people don’t have internet today! SpaceX launched the first batch of these satellites
in May 2019, which Elon in his very ELON MUSK announced by posting a tweet using these satellites.
As of when this video is out SpaceX has launched about 750 StarLink satellites into orbit and
planning to deploy even more of them in a long term vision of providing connectivity
and internet to all. They will not only be deployed on Earth but also will be deployed
as a communication system around Mars. So far we have discussed a lot of projects
and visions of Elon musk for his future city. Now let’s look at how our lives would be
like in one of Elon’s future city. The things will be a lot different in the future even
where we get our food from. Elon’s brother Kimball 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.
You will have more time to go to meetings and events because of time saved from driverless
cars. So in a future city which would be a completely mind-boggling, what is going to
be taught in school? How is the education going to be? Elon Musk believes the way children
are taught in regular schools does not adhere to their needs. It is completely outdated
in this new era of technology. For that he started his own school for his children and
a few children of employees at SpaceX and is also on the SpaceX campus. It’s called
Ad Astra, which means to the stars! The founder of SpaceX and NeuraLink believes that there
is a fundamental element that the modern education system lacks and that is: problem-solving.
He explains this with an example: “It’s important to teach problem-solving. Let’s
say you’re trying to teach how engines work. Now, a traditional way is to teach all about
screwdrivers and wrenches, which is a tough way to do it. A good approach would be like:
Here’s an engine, let’s take it apart, and how are we gonna do that? We need a screwdriver
or a wrench for that. When we teach like this, something important happens, the relevance
of the tools becomes apparent.” And he is correct, the education of our new generation
should be compatible with the advanced technology and scientific knowledge today. He breaks
down education as downloading of data and algorithms into your brain. He wants to gamify
the learning. If the learning is like a game, the more interesting, it is to children. He
also focuses on to explain why things are being taught as it makes an enormous difference
in a Child’s motivation. At Ad Astra they don’t make kids go through grades like an
assembly line, which is being done in many schools today As every child is unique and
has their own capabilities and interests. The children should explore the non-traditional
topics such as robotics and artificial intelligence, even studying the ethics of AI and also studying
physics because its best way of understanding our future and also Physics instills a skill
of problem solving in you and especially the harnesses the shining process.
In this future city children and adults will spend their free rime playing crazy and fascinating
video games that are unimaginable today. Elon points this out that only 40 years ago the
most advanced game was pong, which comprised two rectangle and a small ball, but today
we have games with high graphics which very much resemble reality. People can play these
multi-player games from across the world, and in future it will be even more advanced.
We would have VR sets and force-feedback gloves, in the future we’ll be playing inside games
that will be indistinguishable from reality. 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 now
petitioning to different authorities to start a human trial of this in the coming 2 years
which would give us superhuman powers of thinking and gaining information. Elon musks future
city would differ greatly from the one we live in today, many things will change many
would not, but one thing is sure we are in a golden age of technology and with the help
of this technology we could improve our way of lives even more in the future. In a future
where we could travel to any other city in the world within an hour where everything
would run on batteries, not fossil fuels. A thousand satellites which would connect
every part of the world and people. 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 long-term well being of humans and to inspire many others
of the new generation so that we could all advance as a civilisation become a type 3
civilisation. So what do you think about the amazing technology
sand ideas we talked about? What do you think our future would be like? Let us know what
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