There Are Two Futures - Elon Musk

[Music] I think look at the future from a standpoint of of the probabilities it's like it's like a branching stream of probabilities and there are actions that we can take that affect those probabilities or that accelerate one thing or slow down another thing I make you know introduce something new to the probability stream sustainable energy will happen no matter what if there was no Tesla that never existed it would have to happen out of necessity it's total logical um if you until you if you don't have sustainable energy it means you have unsustainable energy eventually

you'll run out and the the laws of Economics will drive uh it will drive civilization towards sustainable energy inevitably the the the fundamental value of a company like Tesla is the degree to which it accelerates the Advent of sustainable energy if it accelerated that by a decade potentially more than a decade that would be quite a good thing to occur then there's becoming a multi-pound species in space-rank Civilization this is not inevitable it's very important to appreciate this is not inevitable the sustainable energy future I think is largely inevitable but being space crucialization is definitely

not inevitable if you look at the at the progress in space in 1969 we're able to send somebody to the Moon 1969 then we had the Space Shuttle that the space shuttle could only take people to low earth orbit then space shuttle retired and the United States could take no one to orbit so that's the trend that's right it's like down to nothing this is not mistaken when they think that technology just automatically improves it does not automatically improve it only improves if a lot of people work very hard to make it better and actually

it will I think it by itself degrade actually you look at Great civilizations like ancient Egypt and they're able to make the pyramids and they forgot how to do that and and the Romans they built these incredible aqueducts they forgot how to do it [Music] if there are two futurists and one futurists were out there among the stars and things we read about and see in science fiction movies the good ones are true we have these starships and we're going to see what other planets are like and we're a multi-penet species and the scope and

scale of Consciousness is expanded across many civilizations and many planets and many Star systems this is a great future this is a wonderful thing that's what we should strive for [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music]