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Well, the future is not here on The Phil Factor. If this was the future, I’d be sending this blog to you just by thinking it. What I’m referring to is my blog post from February 3rd when I reported that Elon Musk’s company Neuralink had implanted a device in a living human brain that was supposed allow that paralyzed person to control a computer or smart phone just by thinking it.
Well, it worked. Eleven months ago Noland Arbaugh had to hold a stick in his mouth to tap keyboard keys. Now he’s playing online chess by thinking his moves. Eight months after the brain implant he went to France to open a speed chess championship!
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Elon Musk looks and sounds like a villain from a spy movie. He seemed like one when we thought he ruined Twitter, now known as X, but maybe, despite his grating personality, he’s doing some very good things.
Now at Neuralink, he’s working on curing certain types of blindness. SpaceX is also his baby and is commercializing space travel by bringing supplies and people to the International Space Station. If you’re interested, SpaceX also has a merch store! No, you can’t buy a ticket to space flight… yet, but you can get a cool SpaceX t-shirt or models of some of the SpaceX rockets.
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I’m not a Elon Musk fan because of his politics and his personality, but is it possible that he’s not a terrible person? It seems like he’s doing good things. Would a bad person do good philanthropic things?
If I can acknowledge that Elon’s not the worst person in the world, and that his work has helped humanity, maybe it’s possible for all of us in the States and every country to try to see the positive in others and see people as individuals rather than just one group against another. If you take a minute to get to know that neighbor with a political sign you don’t agree with, maybe you’ll find out that they’re a nice person. In the immortal words of Lenny Kravitz:
Come on people
It’s time to get together
It’s time for the revolution
Here is once again in our face
Why haven’t we learn from our past
We’re at the crossroads of our human race
Why are we kicking our own ass
We want peace
We Want Peace, Lenny Kravitz 2004
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Btw, Elon Musk, if you read this on X, hit me up in my email authorphiltaylor@gmail or on X and I’ll interview you here.
Happy Monday everbody! I hope you have a great week, and thanks for reading! ~Phil
Musk has innovated transportation and employs over 121,000 workers. Because of his politics he is totally ignored by the Biden administration which continues to waste money on fly by night promises of solutions that Musk could provide. So far, the administration’s policies in this regard have cost us over $250 million in a failed electric bus scam which Musk could supply.
The Dow Jones hit over 43,000 today. Just sayin’
Corporate earnings are expected to be very healthy and 41 are expected to be reported which is fueling the rise. Tech stocks led the way today. Apple, Microsoft, and Tesla all up (Tesla up 0.64%)
One of the longest-running blogs is worried about the future? How much future do you think you have left? (from one blog dinosaur to another…) 🙂
I’m not worried about the future! I’m sure you and I have plenty of it ahead of us