{"id":17647,"date":"2015-09-21T12:49:51","date_gmt":"2015-09-21T19:49:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/elon-musk-ceo-of-tesla-and-spacex-wants-to-change-how-and-where-humans-live"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:22:53","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:22:53","slug":"elon-musk-ceo-of-tesla-and-spacex-wants-to-change-how-and-where-humans-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/elon-musk-ceo-of-tesla-and-spacex-wants-to-change-how-and-where-humans-live","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, Wants to Change How (and Where) Humans Live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/elon-musk-ceo-of-tesla-and-spacex-wants-to-change-how-and-where-humans-live.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Making spaceships and electric supercars isn\u2019t enough for Elon Musk. Meghan Daum meets the entrepreneur who wants to save the world.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The name sounds like a men\u2019s cologne. Or a type of ox. It sounds possibly made up. But then, so much about Elon Musk seems the creation of a fiction writer\u2014and not necessarily one committed to realism. At 44, Musk is both superstar entrepreneur and mad scientist. Sixteen years after cofounding a company called <a href=\"http:\/\/X.com\">X.com<\/a> that would, following a merger, go on to become PayPal, he\u2019s launched the electric carmaker Tesla Motors and the aerospace manufacturer SpaceX, which are among the most closely watched\u2014some would say obsessed-over\u2014companies in the world. He has been compared to the Christian Grey character in the <a style=\"text-decoration: none;\" href=\"http:\/\/fiftyshadesofgreyfullmovie.com\"><span style=\"text-decoration: none; color: #BABABA;\">Fifty Shades of Grey movie<\/span><\/a>, though not as often as he\u2019s been called \u201cthe real Tony Stark,\u201d referring to the playboy tech entrepreneur whose alter ego, Iron Man, rescues the universe from various manifestations of evil.<\/p>\n<p>The Iron Man comparison is, strangely, as apt as it is hyperbolic, since Musk has the boyish air of a nascent superhero and says his ultimate aim is to save humanity from what he sees as its eventual and unavoidable demise\u2014from any number of causes, carbon consumption high among them. (As it happens, he met with Robert Downey, Jr., to discuss the Tony Stark role, and his factory doubled as the villain\u2019s hideaway in <em>Iron Man 2<\/em>.) To this end he\u2019s building his own rockets, envisioning a future in which we colonize Mars, funding research aimed at keeping artificial intelligence beneficial to humanity, and making lithium-ion electric batteries that might, one day, put the internal-combustion engine out to pasture.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vogue.com\/13349221\/elon-musk-profile-entrepreneur-spacex-tesla-motors\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Making spaceships and electric supercars isn\u2019t enough for Elon Musk. Meghan Daum meets the entrepreneur who wants to save the world. The name sounds like a men\u2019s cologne. Or a type of ox. It sounds possibly made up. But then, so much about Elon Musk seems the creation of a fiction writer\u2014and not necessarily one [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,6,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-robotics-ai","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17647","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\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17647"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69502,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17647\/revisions\/69502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}