Elan Musk says that the speed of technology development is only getting faster, and that some things are maybe developing too fast. In the future, we will have video games, so realistic that you won’t be able to tell the difference between games and reality.
From self driving tunnel networks to brain controlled computers. We’re going to take a look at how Elan Musk and the technology he is working on today will take us forward at creating the city of the future Elan says that if you think about the future, you want it to be better than the past a future that is exciting, and one that people want to be a part of.
How will we get from one city to another. It’s hard to imagine being able to fly from New York City to Shanghai in 39 minutes or Sydney to London in 59 minutes, but this is something that is being worked on today by Elan musk and Space X Elan musk compares space rockets to airplanes, saying that if you do not reuse a plane, it would cost up to 250 million dollars to fly one way, but because you can use it 10s of thousands of times, it becomes affordable. The same is true with rockets.
A Space X rocket costs about $60 million. If the rocket can be used 1000 times it then costs, $60,000 per flight. And by carrying the number of people, you can get the cost of a rocket flight down to the price and economy airplane ticket, the star ship is the rocket being developed to take people to Mars, and it can be used to transport people from city to city in 2017 interview Elan Musk said he is looking at this becoming a reality in the next eight to 10 years.
And if you can carry people in rockets, then you’ll also be able to carry cargo. So if you live in New York, you can have a package delivered to you from Paris in 30 minutes. Another way of getting packages and goods from one part of a country to another, will be buying electric semi trucks.
Today the Tesla semi still requires a human driver who can enable autopilot, but in the future, you will be seeing entirely driver less trucks pulling into cities, making deliveries and turning straight around and making transportation cheaper, which could lower the price of buying things and cities and electric trucks will be good for the environment as 23% of greenhouse gases comes from the trucking industry.

The thought of people traveling between cities by rockets will seem far fetched by many, even though Elan musk says it could be only eight to 10 years away. Another way of getting people from city to city would be by a Hyper loop
Elon Musk asks that when you think about a new transportation system, what would you want. Ideally you want something that costs half the price and travel is twice as fast. Can’t crash is immune to the weather, and is self powered by solar panels,
it would take you two hours by car to get from Dubai to Abu Dhabi, but with a Hyper loop, it would take 12 minutes Hyper loop stations or portals would be inside cities, unlike airports, making it easier and faster to travel around a number of Hyper loop routes are currently being planned out, and being able to pop up in another city in a matter of minutes, would be like a tourist attraction that people would want to visit Elan musk says that if you come up with new technology, it should feel like that. Let’s move in close closer and take a look inside these futuristic electric cities.

Most people would imagine cars and drones flying around in a futuristic city, but this isn’t realistic to Elan musk since flying cars will be noisy produce a lot of wind and have a number of safety issues. They will also be affected by the weather tunnels might seem like an old boring technology, but Elan musk is going to make them a lot more exciting.
Why do we have city buildings that are in 3rd, and the road network that is mostly one level Elan musk believes that the solution to urban traffic is a network of tunnels that go deep under our cities, since you can always go deeper than you can go upwards.

He says that the deepest mines are deeper than the tallest buildings. So why not have a network of tunnels that go 20 3040 or 50 levels deep, where cars can go up to 200 kilometers an hour as railings guide the car. Since your autopilot takes over when you enter the tunnel system, but creating a tunnel is slow and expensive, which is why this has not been done before, what will make having 30 to 50 levels of tunnels possible in the future will be electric and self driving cars, along with a new tunnel digger.
The boring company is working on making this a possibility. Elon says that the first thing that needs to be done is to cut down the tunnel size tunnels today need to be large, allowing for crashes, emergency vehicles and ventilation for gas powered cars, this can all be eliminated by using self driving electric cars, shrinking down the size of a tunnel to more than half.
The second thing that needs to be done is to build a faster bigger one the kindig and reinforce the tunnel at the same time.
A trip from West wood to LA x airport, which takes 20 to 55 minutes depending on traffic on normal roads will only take five to six minutes in a boring company tunnel Elan musk believes that in 10 years it will be unusual for cars to be built that are not fully self driving, as they are getting close to being 100 to 200% safer than

He says that getting into a car will be like getting into an elevator and pushing a button. We used to have elevator operators who control the levers and take it for granted that it is all automatic today.
It is the falling prices of lithium ion batteries that is making it possible to see more electric cars and other forms of transport on the streets, along with more houses powered by solar panels and batteries are what Tesla’s main expertise is in Tesla is building Giga factories, these factories are making lithium ion batteries, along with other parts for Tesla cars and energy products. Elan Musk says that it would take 100 Giga factories to give humanity enough battery capacity to go fully renewable, there are two Giga factories in the United States, with another one under construction in China, and Tesla have just announced plans for another Gigafactory in Germany, the future will come from being able to store energy and the whole world can go renewable with 100 Giga factories. As our cities and lives become electrified, everything will also be connected.
This will be because of starlink, a project by Space X. It aims to launch thousands of satellites into orbit, creating a constellation, providing internet access, even in places where people don’t have internet today. Space X launched the first batch of satellites in May 2019.
They now have 122 orbiting the Earth, and are planning to deploy 10s of thousands, and in the long term, a version of this constellation internet will be deployed as a communication system around Mars.

Let’s take a look at our day to day lives inside an
Elan Musk city of the future. For example, even where we get our food is going to be different in the future. Elan Musk’s brother Kimball Musk is a board member of Space X and Tesla and is also a co founder of square roots, a company that is building shipping container vertical farms and cities, as this is a more sustainable and healthier way of growing food.
You can find a link in the description below to the video we made on how the future of farming is in our cities with these city farms, you will be able to get your greens from farm to table in four hours and Kimball says that the tech being used today to farm food and climate controlled city spaces will also be used on Mars. Now imagine being dropped off at work in your completely self driving Tesla car, but it does not have to sit in a parking lot waiting for you. It can go back out by itself, and could even make money for you by picking up passengers and dropping them off. You could schedule when it can be shared.
And when you need it ready for yourself, and you will even have the option of only sharing it with friends and family. That is 100% of what will happen Elan says it’s just a question of when.
But what happens when all driving becomes autonomous since the largest employer in the world have people driving in some ways such as taxis and truck drivers. Elan says that since there will be fewer jobs that a robot can’t do better, a universal income will be necessary, where people aren’t given a set income, without needing to work for it. So in a futuristic city where a lot of today’s jobs don’t exist, one is going to be taught in the schools.
Elan Musk created a school. It started out being for his own children and a few children have employees at Space X. It’s even located on the Space X campus, and it’s called Astra, which means to the stars eland breaks down education as the downloading of data and algorithms into your brain, which has been done really badly in traditional schools, his method is to gamify learning, the more you can make learning like a game, the better.
And if you can explain why things are being taught. It makes a huge difference in a child’s motivation and ostra, they don’t make kids go through different grades like an assembly line, since children have different abilities at different levels.
They focus on teaching, problem solving, such as how engines work. The children explore non traditional topics such as robotics and artificial intelligence, even studying the ethics of AI. He wants advice who anyone is to try and learn as much as possible, that allows you to predict or create things for the future. Since the best way to predict the future is to invent it. And also study physics, especially the thinking process around physics, since it’s the best way of understanding our future. So how will kids and adults, spend their free time in the city of the future.
By playing crazy video games that we can’t even imagine what they will be like today, Ilan likes to point out that only 40 years ago, the most advanced game was Pong, which was two rectangles and a dot. Today, you have photorealistic games that millions of people can play together, you have VR sets and force feedback loops. In the future, who will be playing inside games that will be indistinguishable from reality. And even if you slow the incredibly fast development of video game technology way down, you would still end up in a world where you won’t be able to tell the difference between reality and the video game. This then begs the question, how do we know that this has not already happened in the past.
How do we know that we are not inside one of those games right now inside a simulation Ilan says that we are building progressively greater intelligence, and that the percentage of intelligence that is not human is increasing. He compares humans to a bootloader, which is a tiny bit of code used to start a computer Ilan says that you can think of humans as

a biological bootloader for starting a digital super intelligence. So there needs to be some sort of merger between biological and machine intelligence, since we will be too slow keeping up with AI, creating a crisis in the future. It is all about the connection speed between your brain and your digital world, our output is getting slower. Before we use keyboards with 10 fingers, and now we use two thumbs on a phone Elan explains that computers can communicate at a trillion bits per second.
While our thumbs can do 10 to 100 bits per second. We made a video link in the description that talked about how Amazon’s Alexa, could be a step in connecting our brains to our digital world, Alexis voice control has been built into over 20,000 devices, allowing for faster multitasking commands.
For example, as you watch TV, you can ask the Wi Fi router to turn off just for your children’s devices when it’s time for them to sleep. But Elan Musk is in a different world when it comes to connecting our brains to computers. He and a team are developing something called neural link, friends and a chip will be implanted into the brain, that will communicate to a wearable pod, allowing you to be linked with a computer.
So far, a monkey has been able to control the computer with its brain and neural link is petitioning the FDA to start trials with humans next year. In the future, it will enable anyone who wants to have superhuman powers of thinking and acquiring information.
So that is what Elan Musk’s city of the future looks like we’re in under an hour you can travel to any other city in the world, everything in our cities will be running on batteries, all connected by a constellation of satellites, providing internet to everyone around the world. People won’t be able to tell the difference between playing a video game and real life, and they will have their brains connected to a computer, so that we can keep up with artificial intelligence EIan musk explains that the rate of change in technology is incredibly fast that it is outpacing our ability to understand it.
If you said to people watching the Wright brothers making the first airplane flight in 1903, that in 66 years we would be landing a person on the moon, they wouldn’t believe you. Elan says that there is one thing that we can be certain of any predictions that we make today for what the future will be like in 50 years will be wrong. The owner of TED Talks, Chris Anderson says that Elan Musk is motivated by two things. One is the desire to work on humanity’s long term well being. And the other is to do something exciting to inspire humanity future.
From SpaceX and Tesla, to his own school (Ad Astra), Elon Musk is developing companies and ideas that look to bring humanity forward.
This mini documentary video takes a look at a number of Elon Musk’s projects and ideas. And tries to envision what the city of the future looks like. Such as how self driving electric cars will allow for smaller tunnels.
Making way for The Boring Company to look at developing a mega network of underground tunnels. Other topics covered include: • How the future of self driving cars and transportation (Tesla Semi) will affect our daily lives and jobs (Universal Income) · How all of humanity can go renewable with 100 Tesla Gigafactories •
If Space X can make space rockets as reusable as airplanes, we can fly people from 1 side of the world to the other in under an hour (Star ship) • Or how a better form of transportation would be the Hyper loop •
How Elan Musk’s brother, Kim ball Musk, is developing vertical farming in cities using shipping containers, and the tech could be used in colonizing Mars • There being a global internet provided by a constellation of satellites (Space X Star link) •
And how in the future, you won’t be able to tell the difference between video games and reality (and asking if we are in a simulation) • And that we need to keep up with artificial intelligence by hooking up our brains to a computer (Neuralink)