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The best part about the Hyperloop is that, theoretically, the technology needed to build it already exists. (Superconducting electromagnets, basically.) All it would take to make it happen is, well, the will — and several boatloads of money. Musk, whose "other company"for money, probably believes he has both.
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Sadly, the Hyperloop will never, ever happen. It'sthat the realities of politics and construction permits would render all but impossible. Even if the technology is perfect, we can (using already obsolete technology), so there's no way California is going let anyone dig a five-hundred-mile-long tunnel under the San Andreas Fault. It's taken New York City a generation to break ground on , and will probably take another to finish it. This nation isand all the billionaire dreams in the world won't change that. (See also: thepipeline, , , etc.)
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Not that it really matters. Like the namesake of his electric car, Musk is the stereotypical mad dreamer. He imagines all manner of wild and fantastic inventions, most of which will never come to pass. But the few that do just might change the world.
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Musk still isn't a household name, but he , because that's how Musk plans it. He used histo scheduled a series of . Most of them will mean nothing to you, unless you are in the market for a $40,000-plus car that can only travel on very specific highways. Butin the news and make both objects of endless fascination.
That also gets youand saucy tabloid rumors . (For the record, Musk denied today that he's dating Cameron Diaz. He didn't deny that he was "the inspiration for Iron Man genius billionaire Tony Stark," but that's probably because Stark was invented eight years before Musk was born.) For those tired of the incessant hype that seems to follow Silicon Valley's richest kids around, it might all seem like a bit much.
Then again, in this case it's not wholly unearned. (Unlike more than few ".) Musk made his first millions by creating an early version of online publishing software, but then became a true mogul by building PayPal, one of the few survivors of the original dotcom boom (and selling it to eBay for a billion dollars.) Then he used that money , the first private company to . And while he was doing that, on the side, apparently solving another problem: a true electric car that's . He's not a one-hit wonder or a guy who just got lucky with the right cellphone app . He's built real things that others haven't (or couldn't) and his dreams are about more than just striking it rich.
Unlike Steve Jobs or Mark Zuckerberg, Musk's "vision" seems to be a bit wilder than just selling a product. (Though he's pretty good at doing that, too.) He has publiclyand solar powering everything, and basically saving the planet from human foolishness. The hyperloop — in the first place — is just another thread of his larger vision: Using technology to make life nicer and healthier and more amazing. It doesn't really matter if the Hyperloop never gets built. It just enough to know there's someone in the world who might make people believe, even if it's only for a moment, that it actually could be.
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