" Satisfaction Guaranteed" is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov, originally published in the April 1951 issue of Amazing Stories, and included in the collections Earth Is Room Enough (1957), The Rest of the Robots (1964), and The Complete Robot (1982). Today, he is worth $42.3 billion, according to Forbes.Short story by Isaac Asimov "Satisfaction Guaranteed" In 2003, Musk started Tesla, then Neuralink in 2016 and The Boring Company in 2017.
Musk tweet on his philosophy and creation of SpaceX "Foundation Series & Zeroth Law are fundamental to creation of SpaceX," Musk tweeted in June 2018, referring to Asimov's Zeroth Law of robotics. "Given that this is the first time in 4.5 billion years where it's been possible for humanity to extend life beyond Earth, it seems like we'd be wise to act while the window was open and not count on the fact it will be open a long time," Musk said.Īs a result, Musk started SpaceX in 2002 (after his second start-up, X.com which later became PayPal, sold to eBay for $1.5 billion). Musk also said it taught him that "civilizations move in cycles," influencing him to pursue space exploration and further mankind's "upward cycle," he told The Guardian in 2013.
"The lesson I drew from is you should try to take the set of actions that are likely to prolong civilization, minimize the probability of a dark age and reduce the length of a dark age if there is one," Musk told Rolling Stone in 2017. "Worth reading Asimov's Foundation," the SpaceX and Tesla CEO tweeted on Wednesday, "in the order that they were written."Īsimov's "Foundation" saga is about "the collapse and rebirth of a vast interstellar empire in the universe of the future," according to Encyclopedia Britannica. One set of those books Musk still recommends today: the seven-book "Foundation" science fiction series by scientist and author Isaac Asimov.
0 kommentar(er)
