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How Tesla Will Change The World (LOOOONG)

I read this really cool (SUPER LONG) article on a bunch of topics, and ties in how Tesla and Elon plays a part. It's a long article, but touches on fossil fuels, energy, car history, tesla, etc... I really enjoyed reading this. :biggrin:

How Tesla Will Change The World | Wait But Why

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Now it’s a century later. The most primitive local telephone call through a wire has become a person in Delhi being able to take a slab of glass out of his pocket, tap it with his finger, and instantly be talking to, and looking at, his friend in Sao Paulo. The grainiest, choppiest black-and-white silent movies have become Pixar. Mixing chemicals in a lab has become splitting atoms in the Large Hadron Collider. The Wright Brothers’ 12 second, 120-foot flight has become routine trips 250 miles up to the International Space Station.

But instead of me finishing that paragraph with, “The primitive gas-burning car has become [something rad we can’t even imagine],” I have to finish it with, “The primitive gas-burning car has become the better gas-burning car.”
 
I know...I guess HuffPost felt the piece was timeless as they posted today. All three parts and bonus material. Great to see wider distribution.

I take this to mean there is a fourth part in the works...and reason for renewed press:

How (and Why) SpaceX Will Colonize Mars

By Tim Urban



This is Part 3 of a four-part series on Elon Musk’s companies. For an explanation of why this series is happening and how Musk is involved, start with Part 1.

 
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I'm surprised this hasn 't been mentioned yet, but the fourth (and final) part of the Elon Musk series (as promised at the end of the third) was published yesterday:

http://waitbutwhy.com/2015/11/the-cook-and-the-chef-musks-secret-sauce.html

It's a fantastic read overall, though the mentions of Ayn Rand alongside genuinely great thinkers was more than a little jarring. The Fountainhead reference doesn't really work either.
 
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I'm surprised this hasn 't been mentioned yet, but the fourth (and final) part of the Elon Musk series (as promised at the end of the third) was published yesterday:

http://http://waitbutwhy.com/2015/11/the-cook-and-the-chef-musks-secret-sauce.html

It's a fantastic read overall, though the mentions of Ayn Rand alongside genuinely great thinkers was more than a little jarring. The Fountainhead reference doesn't really work either.

JER, Much appreciated...I knew there was something else in the works! Your link was broken for me, so I will add this one for everyone in case they have the same problem:

The Cook and the Chef: Musks Secret Sauce - Wait But Why

Speechless...love this post!
 
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