Elon Musk on the innovations that will matter, multi-planet civilization, AI and demographics

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Elon Musk thinks there are five innovations that will change our lives in the decades ahead.

* the Internet, an astonishing invention by which people can access knowledge from anywhere.
* the transition to the sustainable production and consumption of energy.
* the extension of human life to other planets, depending on how rapidly we progress in developing space transport and how we live – if we manage to survive — by then.
* Reading and writing genetic code
* AI – artificial intelligence.

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