Musk wants to speed electric vehicles, colonise Mars, build super-fast trains in vacuum tunnels and integrate AI into human brains

Elon Musk who is going to be 50 this year, is the World’s second richest man, behind Jeff Bezos according to Forbes magazine. His Tesla, electric car company has out-performed exceptionally well as shares in Tesla increased 700 per cent in 2020 to take its value to more than $600bn, and he thinks most of his money will be spent building a base on Mars., which reveals he pursuing his passions rigorously. “You want things in the future to be better and you want these new exciting things that make life better. Take Space X, as I kept expecting us to advance beyond Earth, and to put a person on Mars, and have based on the moon, and have, you know, very frequent flights to orbit” he said. When that didn’t happen, he came up with the idea of the “Mars Oasis Mission” which aimed to send a small greenhouse to the red planet. Musk is an entrepreneur, engineer who passionately solve technical problems, and wanted to open up all Tesla’s patents to speed up the development of electric vehicles worldwide by revolutionising battery technology. He also wants to colonise Mars making life multi-planetary, build super-fast trains in vacuum tunnels, and integrate AI into human brains.

Musk’s vision is the kind of futuristic fantasies one would find in a 1980s kids magazine, and he was certainly inspired by the books and movies he read and saw as a kid in South Africa.

He wants to go for a breakthrough improvement that really matters for mankind and is prepared to take more risks than most.

By 2002, he had sold off his holdings in his first two ventures, an internet city guide called Zip2 and the online payment company PayPal all when he was just 30 and had almost $200m in the bank. His SpaceX’s first three launches had failed, and Tesla had some production problems, supply chain, and design issues but ignored the doomster and went ahead anyway.  People wanted him to fail because of his arrogance about his ambition. “I think it would be arrogant if we said we were definitely going to do it, as opposed to we’re aspiring to do it, and we’re going to give it our best shot.”