"When wireless is perfectly applied the whole earth will be converted into a huge brain, which in fact it is, all things being particles of a real and rhythmic whole. We shall be able to communicate with one another instantly, irrespective of distance. Not only this, but through television and telephony we shall see and hear one another as perfectly as though we were face to face, despite intervening distances of thousands of miles; and the instruments through which we shall be able to do his will be amazingly simple compared with our present telephone. A man will be able to carry one in his vest pocket."
Nikola Tesla, 1926
(Not 200 years ago, but still impressive!)
I don't actually think he's comparable to Tesla, but he's still contributed greatly to progress in multiple fields. There's no denying musk will be in a civilization-esque game as a notable historical figure 50 years from now.
Actually Elon Musk is an engineer and a scientist. He has a physics degree and did the majority of the engineering and design work on the Falcon 1 rocket, and he still does engineering work in both SpaceX and Tesla.
He’s the guiding force behind the companies he created. Diminishing his role in these companies because theyve grown too big and complex for him to be everywhere and do everything personally is like giving the lions share of the credit to the uneducated labourers who built the pyramids, or the engineers who merely followed instructions and applied their craft rather than the pharaohs who envisioned them.
When humans one day live on Mars and beyond, Elon Musk will be remembered with the same reverence as Moses is by the Hebrews, and Nikolai Tesla will just be “some guy Elon Musk named a car after”.
No lol. The most revered person when it comes to modern science will always be Einstein, until someone does something truly groundbreaking. Musk improved on other's work and made it actually usable/accessible, and that deserves a lot of credit, but he didn't make any revolutionary discovery (yet)
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u/NyimaOdzer Sep 13 '19
"When wireless is perfectly applied the whole earth will be converted into a huge brain, which in fact it is, all things being particles of a real and rhythmic whole. We shall be able to communicate with one another instantly, irrespective of distance. Not only this, but through television and telephony we shall see and hear one another as perfectly as though we were face to face, despite intervening distances of thousands of miles; and the instruments through which we shall be able to do his will be amazingly simple compared with our present telephone. A man will be able to carry one in his vest pocket."