{"id":119193,"date":"2021-02-05T11:23:07","date_gmt":"2021-02-05T19:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/neil-degrasse-tyson-elon-musk-is-the-most-important-person-alive-today"},"modified":"2021-02-05T11:23:07","modified_gmt":"2021-02-05T19:23:07","slug":"neil-degrasse-tyson-elon-musk-is-the-most-important-person-alive-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/neil-degrasse-tyson-elon-musk-is-the-most-important-person-alive-today","title":{"rendered":"Neil deGrasse Tyson: Elon Musk Is The Most Important Person Alive Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BXcgBfi4xxo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It summarizes the whole thing well.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\u201c\u201cAs important as Steve Jobs was, here\u2019s the difference: Elon Musk is trying to invent a future, not by providing the next app,\u201d says renowned astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bb Subscribe to CNBC Make It.: <a href=\"http:\/\/cnb.cx\/2kxl2rf\">http:\/\/cnb.cx\/2kxl2rf<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat Elon Musk is doing is not simply giving us the next app that will be awesome on our smartphone,\u201d deGrasse Tyson says. \u201cNo, he is thinking about society, culture, how we interact, what forces need to be in play to take civilization into the next century.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Between Musk\u2019s work at Tesla developing electric cars and his SpaceX plans to put humans on Mars by 2024 (and, eventually, to colonize the planet), the billionaire tech executive is attempting to revolutionize both human transportation and space exploration, deGrasse Tyson says.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/neil-degrasse-tyson-elon-musk-is-the-most-important-person-alive-today\">Continue reading \u201cNeil deGrasse Tyson: Elon Musk Is The Most Important Person Alive Today\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It summarizes the whole thing well. \u201c\u201cAs important as Steve Jobs was, here\u2019s the difference: Elon Musk is trying to invent a future, not by providing the next app,\u201d says renowned astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson. \u00bb Subscribe to CNBC Make It.: http:\/\/cnb.cx\/2kxl2rf. \u201cWhat Elon Musk is doing is not simply giving us the next app [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,1514,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-space-travel","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}