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Elon Musk and the Future of Transportation, Discovery Channel

Elon Musk is an amazing entrepreneur and thanks to the Discovery Channel I got to talk about his latest adventure. Elon Musk is a crazy dude, in my opinion, in a good way.

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Matthew GriffinFounder, President and Futurist, 311 Institute
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About this tv interview

Elon Musk is a crazy dude, in my opinion, in a good way. While most CEO’s are content running on the treadmill that is the status quo Musk is tearing up the books and pushing the boundaries of, well, pretty much everything.

On the one hand he’s busy building out the world’s foremost electric vehicle company, Tesla, while juggling his responsibilities at one of the world’s hottest renewable energy start ups SolarCity with popping in to check on the progress of his Artificial Intelligence (AI) start up OpenAI, conquering space and colonising Mars with SpaceX, and hooking people's brains directly into AI with NeuraLink.

Frankly, anyone who winges about not having enough time in the day should take a leaf out of his book. However, as if all that wasn’t enough he’s now gotten himself into boring machines, under the umbrella of his new, new venture The Boring Company, and he’s now using them to dig tunnels under Los Angeles in an effort to re-invent tunnelling and urban transportation.

It’s probably fair to say that as a futurist I’m a great Musk fan so it was a nice surprise to be phoned up by none other than the Discovery Channel to do an on air interview about his latest venture, the Boring Company. You can see my debut below and it aired to over 25 million people, sorry about that folks.

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Key takeaways

  1. Elon Musk is building Tesla, SolarCity, OpenAI, SpaceX, NeuraLink and The Boring Company at the same time.
  2. The Boring Company is using boring machines to dig tunnels under Los Angeles.
  3. The aim is to re-invent tunnelling and urban transportation.

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What does the Elon Musk and the Future of Transportation keynote cover?

It covers Matthew Griffin's on-air Discovery Channel interview about The Boring Company. The company is digging tunnels under Los Angeles to re-invent tunnelling and urban transportation. It also puts the venture in the context of Musk's other businesses.

Where and when was this session given?

It was an on-air interview on the Discovery Channel and it aired to over 25 million people. The source does not give a date.

Which other companies does Elon Musk run?

He is building Tesla, an electric vehicle company, and works with SolarCity, a renewable energy start-up. He also has OpenAI, an Artificial Intelligence start-up, SpaceX, which aims to colonise Mars, and NeuraLink, which connects brains directly to Artificial Intelligence.

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