Neil deGrasse Tyson: Elon Musk Is The Most Important Person Alive Today

who's gonna influence society the most in the long run Zuckerberg Steve Jobs Elon Jeff Bezos I already had my answer would be Elon Musk think about it as important as Steve Jobs was no doubt about it you have to add him to Bill Gates because they burst the personal computing revolution together here's the difference Elon Musk is trying to invent a future not by providing the next app why do I hear Millennials say oh it would be awesome if you could pass the salt is that how you're using the word awesome excuse me when I was growing up awesome was applied to when we walked on the moon when we carried disease major societal advances that's what we applied the word awesome - and so what Elon Musk is doing is not simply giving us the next app that will be awesome on our smartphone no he is thinking about Society culture how we interact what forces need to be employed to take civilization into the next century and it has to do with transportation it has to do with space exploration why because there's unlimited resources in space resources that on earth we fight wars over in space you no need to fight or just go to another asteroid get your resources a whole category of war has the potential of evaporating entirely with the exploitation of space resources which includes the unlimited access to energy as well that's where Elan musk is those are the kind of people who transformed not only society and the apps that are on your computer he will transform civilization as we know it Elon Musk is deeply respected by everyone who works in his company by anyone who owns a Tesla people own Tesla's loved their Tesla alright there aren't many cars that have that relationship with their owners anyone who knows and cares about space exploration knows and cares about Elon Musk and there's a subset of them or say other people don't realize yet but we are on the frontier of the future of civilization I don't think he gets his full do from all sectors of society but ultimately he will when the SEC is that he is pioneering transform the lives of those were currently have no clue that their life is about to change go heal on must now care if it gets high [Music] [Music]

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Length: 2min 43sec (163 seconds)

Published: Wed Nov 21 2018

Reddit Comments

[u/GameDevIntheMake]

Dude, what a misleading title, he was given 4 options, and he went with the only one that is working with real things. Had Bill Gates been one of those, considering the gargantuan amount of things his foundation is dealing with, it would have been a no-brainer. I see where NdG is coming from, the spaceX stuff, but Elon Musk's enterprise is not the only one working with reusable rockets.

Also, a shoot out to all those unsung heroes, all the scientists that have discovered the things that made electric cars and spaceflight possible.

[u/moon-worshiper]

Alive Today? Steve Jobs died in 2011.

Weird shit going on, where quasi-science is being espoused as science. Even the question is mangled LOL (lack of logic), the hallmark of quasi-science.

So, peeps do realize Musk didn't START SpaceX or Tesla? As a billionaire, he bought them. The founders of SpaceX were some people that were trying to capitalize on the surplus of ICBM missiles after the Soviet Union collapsed. Tesla was started by a couple guys in northern California that felt an AC synchronous motor was better for an electric car than DC motors (based on the technology at the time). They named their company Tesla in honor of the inventor of the AC synchronous motor, Nikola Tesla.

Zuckerberg? Really? Seems like Zuckerberg and Finkbook have been more like the Vatican burning people at the stake in the 1500's for speculating maybe the Earth wasn't the center of the "universe", like Aristarchus of Samos was hypothesizing around 250 BC.