{"id":15994,"date":"2015-08-09T07:14:13","date_gmt":"2015-08-09T14:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=15994"},"modified":"2017-04-26T13:09:40","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T20:09:40","slug":"billionaire-elon-musks-vision-is-out-of-this-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/billionaire-elon-musks-vision-is-out-of-this-world","title":{"rendered":"Billionaire Elon Musk\u2019s vision is out of this world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>In 1989, an 18-year-old South African named Elon Musk approached a girl at a party in Canada, where he was attending college, and said, \u201cI think a lot about electric cars. Do you think about electric cars?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That anecdote, one of scores that make up Ashlee Vance\u2019s biography of the 44-year-old entrepreneur, is telling. Long before Musk parlayed the $US165 million he made for his part in developing the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.afr.com\/technology\/web\/ecommerce\/paypal-mafias-multibillion-dollar-touch-20150401-1mdauz\">internet-banking giant PayPal<\/a> into the more than $US11 billion that underwrite Musk Industries today, he was thinking ahead, envisioning a world that merged science with science fiction, a real world that he, the hero of this story, would bring to fruition.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afr.com\/leadership\/entrepreneur\/profiles\/billionaire-elon-musks-vision-is-out-of-this-world-20150730-ginpcu\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1989, an 18-year-old South African named Elon Musk approached a girl at a party in Canada, where he was attending college, and said, \u201cI think a lot about electric cars. Do you think about electric cars?\u201d That anecdote, one of scores that make up Ashlee Vance\u2019s biography of the 44-year-old entrepreneur, is telling. Long [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15994","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\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15994"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56422,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15994\/revisions\/56422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}