The internet
According to what Elon Musk said on a podcast, he always knew the internet would drastically change humanity. “I would not regard this as a profound insight but rather an obvious one,” Musk said.
Additionally, he even compared the internet to our nervous system, explaining that without it, humans wouldn’t know what’s going on in their bodies. Before the internet, information used to travel by diffusion. If you wanted to talk to someone, you needed to write a letter or call them, but that was a very slow diffusion. Additionally, if you wanted to read a book and you did not have a library, you wouldn’t be able to read it.
The Internet had the ability to change all that. He remembered having very little access to the internet at that time, he used it to study physics at the university, but he always knew one day it would cause a fundamental change in our world.
Thanks to the internet, you have access to a lot of information in a single click, you can read whatever book you want from your tablet, you can book a trip in just a few seconds, listen to music…you can pretty much to everything you want, he explained on the podcast.
“Now suddenly, human organisms anywhere would have access to all the information instantly.”
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Changing human genetics
When he was younger, he remembers wanting to change human genetics in order to change the world we live in. And, as it seems, his dream wasn’t just a dream, as it’s happening today, thanks to technology like Crispr.
“It will become normal, I think, to change the human genome for getting rid of diseases or propensity to various diseases,” he said on the podcast. Changing human genetics is his main goal now, especially that most people would want to edit their genes when they’re going to die from cancer at 40 years old.
According to Musk, changing human genetics is more likely to come down the road, than it is to not come, he said on the podcast.
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Artificial intelligence
“AI is a really major one” too, Elon Musk said on the podcast. Last year at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai, Elon Musk who co-founded non-profit AI research lab OpenAI) explained that very soon, computers will ‘eclipse’ us in every way, and not just in a good way. He mentioned robots taking over our current jobs and even an artificial intelligence race that could trigger a third World War.
Artificial intelligence is “capable of vastly more than almost anyone knows and the rate of improvement is exponential,” Musk explained at the 2018 South by Southwest tech conference. He also believes we, humans, need to unite with AI in order to avoid becoming replaceable.
According to Musk, the goal would be to combine human intelligence with digital intelligence to achieve something greater.
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