TED 2017 — The future we're building — and boring
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Musk's TED 2017 appearance at the Vancouver conference is notable as the widest-ranging summary of his entire portfolio ever given in a single sitting. He announced Boring Company tunnels as a solution to urban congestion, showed early test tunnel footage, discussed Tesla's Autopilot progress, and presented the then-new Neuralink venture. He previewed the Starship architecture and explained why the Mars colony needed to be self-sustaining. The interview covered the landscape of his ambitions comprehensively for the first time since 2013.
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Memorable moments
Shows video of a Tesla car being loaded onto a Boring Company 'skate' and accelerated through a test tunnel at 200 km/h — the first public tunnel demo.
Reveals Neuralink as a 'neural lace' company attempting to merge human intelligence with AI — the first mainstream disclosure of the project.
States that the 'key insight' for making humanity multi-planetary is full reusability, comparing it to what it would cost to fly if planes were thrown away after each flight.
Key quotes
“I think fundamentally the future is vastly more exciting and interesting if we're a spacefaring civilization and a multi-planet species than if we're not. You want to be inspired by things, you want to wake up in the morning and think the future is going to be great.”
