A Bold Prediction About Elon Musk
The haters are going to come after me for this one
In 100 years, Elon Musk will be considered the most important and impactful human in the history of our civilization.
This may seem like a bold prediction (and it is), but I can justify it.
Before I explain, let’s think about which humans so far have had the most impact.
Of course, you have religious figures. Muhammad, Jesus, Buddha, etc. They all influenced and changed the lives of billions.
You also have scientists like Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein whose discoveries evolved our lives completely.
Then there are conquers such as Genghis Khan and Alexander the Great who nearly took over the world.
And, that doesn’t even touch the philosophers like Aristotle or evil dictators like Stalin or Hitler.
So, how could Elon Musk possibly have more impact than all of these people?
Let’s dive in!
What has Elon done thus far?
Elon Musk is 53 years old. While considering the rate of technological advancement in areas such as medicine and longevity, and Elon’s access to resources, it’s safe to say he’s halfway through his life, if not less.
So far, Elon has accomplished an incredible amount. Of course, he has been one of the richest people in the world for years, but aside from wealth, his list of feats is nothing short of insane and has impacted the world greatly.
Zip2
Elon’s first company didn’t really impact many of our lives in any meaningful way. But, it should be noted that Elon sold the company for a few hundred million dollars earning him over $20 million.
This is more than most of us could dream of making. He did this at 27 years old.
PayPal
After Zip2, Elon wanted to take on the banking sector. He ended up founding PayPal with a few other brilliant people.
PayPal is one of the most connected payment companies with over 400 million users in 200 markets. It allows online payments for individuals and businesses in a safe way.
This sounds pretty normal today, but it wasn’t when it was created. PayPal was revolutionary.
Like Zip2 though, PayPal is not what Elon will be remembered for despite it being a massive impactful company and despite the fact he made close to $200 million dollars on the sale.
Tesla
The most impressive accomplishment Tesla has reached is popularizing and revolutionizing the electric car industry. Elon had to battle the entire automobile industry to make this happen.
Aside from electric cars, Tesla is focused on shifting the world to a more sustainable future. They provide energy storage, solar panels and more for the world.
And, this will be nothing compared to what they’re working on.
Tesla is already one of the most impactful companies ever and is only 21 years old.
This company is one of the main reasons Elon Musk became one of the wealthiest people in the world.
The Boring Company
I’m guessing most of you aren’t as excited about the Boring Company’s flamethrower as I am, so let’s talk briefly about the main project they’re working on.
They’ve completed 3 projects so far.
The most popular one is the Las Vegas Convention Centre Loop. A 1.7 mile, 3 station tunnel.
The company is focused on creating tunnels as a way to deal with our annoying traffic problem.
Compared to his other companies, it may not be as interesting, but it is still another ground-breaking company worth a few billion dollars.
NeuraLink
This may be the craziest company of them all. Well, maybe…
They are a company focused on brain science. They’ve created implant devices that go into the skull and connect the human to computers.
Pretty much they’re creating cyborgs.
Noland, a quadriplegic who is the first Neuralink patient can control a computer mouse with his thoughts. This allows him to play games online and surf the internet.
And, that is just the beginning.
OpenAi/X.AI
Elon may not be involved with OpenAi anymore, but he did help found the company. Since his falling out with them, he has created X.Ai.
This is a company focused on building artificial intelligence to accelerate human scientific discovery.
Or as they say, to help humans understand the universe.
So far, they have built Grok, a language model which has a pretty awesome sense of humour.
The team behind this company is nothing short of spectacular.
X
Whether you agree with Elon’s political view or not, something that cannot be denied is social media companies have been censoring opinions and facts.
This was clearly revealed when Elon released The Twitter Files.
These were documents of emails that clearly showed government agents insisting Twitter censor profiles that were going against their narratives and censoring posts that could have swayed the election in 2020.
When Elon purchased Twitter and turned it into X, he in a way, restored free speech on a major social media platform.
Because of him “freeing” Twitter, people were quickly able to debunk false narratives during the 2024 election.
As he would say, he wanted to create the world’s virtual town hall.
If you don’t believe this, that’s okay. But, at the least, he now runs one of the biggest media platforms in the world and has shown you can do so with much less personnel than previously believed.
SpaceX
This is my favourite company in the world. That is mainly because I have an obsession with space exploration.
SpaceX’s mission is to make human consciousness multi-planetary.
Pretty awesome, right?
To do this, they need to reduce the cost of transporting goods through space. This is why they are so focused on making rockets reusable.
Recently, they successfully caught a 20+ story rocket in mid-air. If you haven’t seen it, it’s absolutely insane.
Aside from catching rockets, they also launched StarLink. This is an internet system that is available worldwide thanks to thousands of satellites in orbit.
StarLink on its own is a ground-breaking product that has already benefited millions.
SpaceX has commercialized space and has successfully revived the dream of humans travelling to the stars.
How will his potential accomplishments have impacted the world in 100 years?
To defend my argument, I will be quite optimistic about how these companies and Elon will have impacted the world. They each have massively impactful missions.
Odds are, his companies won’t all reach their ultimate goals. But, even if 30% do, in 100 years, he will still be considered one of the top 10 most impactful people ever.
But, I believe he will achieve more than 30%.
Let’s go back to each company (the ones he still works with) and look at what they’re working on and if they are successful, how that will change our civilization.
Tesla
This one will be the longest because they’re working on so many incredible things. It is insane.
To start, their cars are on the way to being able to drive themselves. So, not only will your car be able to drive itself, but there will be “Robotaxis”. This means you’ll be able to get cheap rides in autonomous cars everywhere.
Owning a car will make no sense in the future thanks to Tesla.
Tesla also has their electric trucks. When these start driving themselves too, the cost of transporting goods will greatly reduce making our cost of living drop. Thanks, Elon!
Don’t forget about their solar roofs and battery storage. For us to power AI, and our future, we need a sufficient amount of renewable energy and a place to store it. Tesla will help solve this problem.
And then they have Optimus. Optimus is a humanoid robot who will be your friend. It’ll help you complete tasks around the house and can maybe even help you at your job.
Optimus will also help work in factories and pretty much everywhere else you can think of.
This robot stands to be the most impactful product of all time. It will massively increase human productivity and exponentially increase the quality of life for all of us.
The Boring Company
In the future, while we are getting rides in our Robotaxis (which will already reduce traffic), there will be tunnels in most cities we can ride through.
Currently, your ride to work might take 20 minutes or maybe even 2 hours. If that was reduced by 25-50% for each human, there would be millions of hours of human productivity freed up per day.
Imagine what you could do with all your new spare time!
NeuraLink
Aside from allowing quadriplegics to connect to computers, they’re also working on restoring vision for those who are blind.
But, there’s more!
Enhanced cognitive abilities
Eliminating back and neck pain
Help to fight early-stage Alzheimer
Restoring motor function to those who are paralyzed
If Neuralink is successful, it’ll improve the lives of millions and over time, billions.
It’ll also improve human productivity and capabilities with enhanced cognitive function. The potential of greatness to come from that makes this possibility one of the most impactful products of all time.
This alone would put him in the ranks of Alexander Fleming who discovered the first antibiotics.
X.Ai
There is potential for magic to happen if Neuralink and X.Ai work together. Imagine connecting your brain instantly to a language model.
You would instantly have access to all human knowledge.
If everyone had that access, the rate of improvement for our civilization would be incredible.
If X.Ai can help understand the universe, it could also help SpaceX on its mission to make humans multi-planetary.
All these companies go hand in hand and will help change our lives on levels that are hard to comprehend now.
X
Aside from allowing free access to information without censorship (immensely important), Elon’s intention is to create an “everything app”.
This means you’d be able to make payments through the app to other users amongst other awesome features.
As is, you can already instantly connect with leaders around the world to get the most up-to-date information.
Just the other day, I saw the CEO of Shopify offer an internship to a user with a tweet.
In the same week, I found out within 10 minutes that Israel was attacking Iran, hours before my dad saw it on CNN.
It’s amazing.
SpaceX
Making humans multi-planetary would be the greatest accomplishment of any human ever. It would make the Apollo missions look like nothing.
We would then have access to near-infinite resources.
We would be able to hedge our bets against possible human extinction from an asteroid hitting Earth or aliens attacking us (I know it is unlikely, but still something to consider).
This would give inspiration to our entire species for years to come and it would create millions of new jobs we’ve never even thought of.
If this was Elon’s only accomplishment, he would already be the most impactful human of all time.
Closing thoughts
It’s incredible and disgusting how people continuously try to cripple and prevent Elon from pursuing his missions.
They attack him for his political opinion and come after his companies.
Instead, they should be encouraging him to continue to advance humanity and to continue creating hundreds of thousands of jobs and billions of dollars for the economy.
It seems backward to prioritize political opinions over incredible innovation.
Our civilization has many problems that politicians only talk about solving. Ironically, people like Elon are solving them while politicians try to hold him back.
Thanks for reading