{"id":15277,"date":"2014-10-06T13:33:50","date_gmt":"2014-10-06T13:33:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wildcat2030-read-of-the-day-exodus-elon\/"},"modified":"2018-12-05T18:35:00","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T01:35:00","slug":"wildcat2030-read-of-the-day-exodus-elon-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wildcat2030-read-of-the-day-exodus-elon-2\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-15277 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wildcat2030-read-of-the-day-exodus-elon-2\/attachment\/15280\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_ncrgkvYMjH1qza6bio1_1280-1-100x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wildcat2030.tumblr.com\/post\/98924503799\/read-of-the-day-exodus-elon-musk-argues-that\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">wildcat2030<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Read of the day: Exodus<br \/>\n&#8211;<br \/>\nElon Musk argues that we must put a million people on Mars if we are to ensure that humanity has a future<br \/>\n&#8211;<br \/>\n\u2018Fuck Earth!\u2019 Elon Musk said to me, laughing. \u2018Who cares about Earth?\u2019 We were sitting in his cubicle, in the front corner of a large open-plan office at SpaceX headquarters in Los Angeles. It was a sunny afternoon, a Thursday, one of three designated weekdays Musk spends at SpaceX. Musk was laughing because he was joking: he cares a great deal about Earth. When he is not here at SpaceX, he is running an electric car company. But this is his manner. On television Musk can seem solemn, but in person he tells jokes. He giggles. He says things that surprise you. When I arrived, Musk was at his computer, powering through a stream of single-line email replies. I took a seat and glanced around at his workspace. There was a black leather couch and a large desk, empty but for a few wine bottles and awards. The windows looked out to a sunbaked parking lot. The vibe was ordinary, utilitarian, even boring. After a few minutes passed, I began to worry that Musk had forgotten about me, but then suddenly, and somewhat theatrically, he wheeled around, scooted his chair over, and extended his hand. \u2018I\u2019m Elon,\u2019 he said.<br \/>\nIt was a nice gesture, but in the year 2014 Elon Musk doesn\u2019t need much of an introduction. Not since Steve Jobs has an American technologist captured the cultural imagination like Musk. There are tumblrs and subreddits devoted to him. He is the inspiration for Robert Downey Jr\u2019s Iron Man. His life story has already become a legend. There is the alienated childhood in South Africa, the video game he invented at 12, his migration to the US in the mid-1990s. Then the quick rise, beginning when Musk sold his software company Zip2 for $300 million at the age of 28, and continuing three years later, when he dealt PayPal to eBay for $1.5 billion. And finally, the double down, when Musk decided idle hedonism wasn\u2019t for him, and instead sank his fortune into a pair of unusually ambitious startups. With Tesla he would replace the world\u2019s cars with electric vehicles, and with SpaceX he would colonise Mars. Automobile manufacturing and aerospace are mature industries, dominated by corporate behemoths with plush lobbying budgets and factories in all the right congressional districts. No matter. Musk would transform both, simultaneously, and he would do it within the space of a single generation. (via <a href=\"http:\/\/aeon.co\/magazine\/technology\/the-elon-musk-interview-on-mars\/?utm_source=Aeon%20newsletter&amp;utm_campaign=4ab3538bba-Daily_Newsletter_30_September_20149_30_2014&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_411a82e59d-4ab3538bba-48134165\">The Elon Musk interview on Mars colonisation \u2013 Ross Andersen \u2013 Aeon<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>wildcat2030: Read of the day: Exodus &#8211; Elon Musk argues that we must put a million people on Mars if we are to ensure that humanity has a future &#8211; \u2018Fuck Earth!\u2019 Elon Musk said to me, laughing. \u2018Who cares about Earth?\u2019 We were sitting in his cubicle, in the front corner of a large [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-3Yp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15277"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15282,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15277\/revisions\/15282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}