{"id":138288,"date":"2022-04-18T18:03:56","date_gmt":"2022-04-18T23:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/elon-musk-a-future-worth-getting-excited-about"},"modified":"2022-04-18T18:03:56","modified_gmt":"2022-04-18T23:03:56","slug":"elon-musk-a-future-worth-getting-excited-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/elon-musk-a-future-worth-getting-excited-about","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk: A future worth getting excited about"},"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\/YRvf00NooN8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Elon Musk talks to Chris Anderson, head and curator of the TED media organisation, about the challenges facing humanity in the coming decades \u2013 and why we should be more optimistic.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>They discuss climate change, clean energy, electric vehicles, the rise of AI and robotics, brain-computer interfaces, self-driving cars, the revolutionary potential of reusable rockets and the forthcoming missions to Mars, as well as the other projects he is working on.<\/p>\n<p>Musk, who has an estimated net worth of $273 billion, provides insight into his work ethos and status as the world\u2019s richest man. He also clarifies the accuracy and thought processes behind his future predictions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk talks to Chris Anderson, head and curator of the TED media organisation, about the challenges facing humanity in the coming decades \u2013 and why we should be more optimistic. They discuss climate change, clean energy, electric vehicles, the rise of AI and robotics, brain-computer interfaces, self-driving cars, the revolutionary potential of reusable rockets [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":566,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,2019,6,1514,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-elon-musk","category-robotics-ai","category-space-travel","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138288","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\/566"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}