Elon Musk is going to finish 2021 as the richest person in the Plantea and also as the Person of the Year for Time magazine. There are many fields in which the founder of Tesla, SpaceX or Paypal is involved, but what seems evident is that for almost everything he has an opinion. And when it comes to giving an opinion, the future is one of his favorite subjects.
In a conference held this year, Musk left some predictions about how he sees the world in the medium and long term. Nobody asks about the evolution of the pandemic because Musk seems to give it as something so immediate and current that no time should be devoted to it when what you want to talk about is the future.
Here are some of Musk’s predictions:
The future at work passes according to Musk for humanoid robots
For Musk, one of humanity’s biggest problems is the security of artificial intelligence (AI). “We should have a supervisory authority to ensure the safety of the AI, but it doesn’t exist yet.”said the businessman.
He then explained: “At Tesla we are building a humanoid robot that will be basically like a car, but with legs. Although we paused for a while so as not to ‘hasten the AI apocalypse,” how these humanoid robots will happen with or without Tesla, and like Tesla, we have a greater capacity to guarantee the security of robotics and artificial intelligence, “he commented, halfway through the joke and reflection.
The challenge of sustainable energy is not entirely clear to Musk
While green energy appears to be the solution to humanity’s energy problems, it is also a challenge for Musk. “If we change the current transport for the electric one, the demand for electricity will more than double and that will bring many challenges with the network, especially for the distribution of energy in the neighborhoods. That is why Tesla has a solar roof,” he stressed.
The billionaire stated that “even if the sustainable generation of electricity increases at the company level, there will continue to be a distribution problem, the substations will have to be expanded drastically, which means that they will have to start demolishing houses to increase the dimensions. And this is it. really inconvenient unless there is significant local generation of electricity in the homes. “
In this sense, for Musk, part of the solution is to have “local generation of energy in the rooms of the houses” and “major developments in sustainable power generation, primarily wind and solar, which should be combined with a battery pack.”
Cryptocurrencies are here to stay, but they won’t have it easy
While many governments try to control cryptocurrencies, it is impossible for Musk to stop them. “I believe that it is not possible to destroy cryptocurrencies, but it is possible for governments to stop their advance”, I observe. In turn, he affirmed that the objective of cryptocurrencies is “to reduce the power of the centralized government”, something that the authorities “do not like”.
The tycoon reflected on the operation of virtual currencies and considered that they have “value” because “they will reduce the errors and latency of the inherited monetary system”, that is, the current one. He also added that governments have a “habit” of “manipulating the” monetary database “according to their own interests.”
Connectivity will go further
For Musk, Starlink – his satellite internet company – will play an important role in the future. “It is a global Internet system and I think it is going to have a profound positive impact on the world because it is really geared towards serving the most disadvantaged,” he said, referring to the reach of the satellite network in rural and remote areas.
The company is willing to offer internet to a large number of people and plans to launch new satellites into space that will cover regions with low connectivity where fiber is expensive and difficult to deploy.
Drugs and their economy will be accepted
For the entrepreneur, society will increasingly accept psychedelic drugs. “People should be open to psychedelics”Musk said, adding that many of the lawmakers are from another era and that “as the new generation comes to power there will be a greater receptivity to the benefits of psychedelic tendencies.”
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