Some think he’s traveled from a tech-dominated future
In a resurfaced interview, Elon Musk has given his own glimpse into the future that’s become oddly relevant again in 2024.
Whilst we’ve written plenty about the so-called mystics like Nostradamus and Baba Vanga predicting the future, they aren’t the only ones who seem to have psychic powers.
Discussing the future of the internet back in 1998, CBS Sunday Morning asked Musk: “What do you see as the future of the internet?”
Long before he was taking over Twitter and three years before founding SpaceX, Musk predicted: “I think the internet is the superset of all media. It is the be-all and end-all of media.
“One will see print, broadcast, arguably radio, essentially all media folding into the internet.”
If that didn’t sound bleak enough, Musk continued to explain what the internet amounts to: “It’s the first of two-way communication that is intelligent.
“It allows consumers to choose what they want to see, when they want to see it, and whether that be radio, whether that be print, whether that be television broadcast, I think it’s going to revolutionize all traditional media.”
Resharing the interview to X, Musk claims that people thought he was ‘crazy’ for predicting this change in how we consume our media.
While there’s been something of a resurgence in television in terms of entertainment, the way we get our news and current affairs has taken a massive swing toward the internet.
Getting your content on-demand shows how far the internet has come, with some claiming Musk must be from the future.
Responding to his reshared post, someone on X wrote: “Ahead of your time or time traveler? 🧐”
Another added: “Reminded me of Nikola Tesla. He was often laughed at for his wild ideas, dismissed as impossible. But he kept going, even on lonely roads…”
Still, Musk might not be the future-predicting deity some bill him as, as someone else said: “What I wanna know is where are our flying cars?”
The crazy thing is that they thought I was crazy for stating this super obvious prediction
pic.twitter.com/OK0akTRj3E— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 10, 2024
With around 45 million people using the internet in 1996 and this having climbed to 150 million by 1999 (over half being in the USA), a fourth concluded: “Super obvious prediction 💀”
It’s no coincidence that Musk has been so involved in getting the internet to us. His Starlink project aims to give more than just internet to the world’s first private space station, aiming to provide ‘global mobile broadband’. This high-speed internet especially hopes to connect those in low-income and remote areas.
Musk has plenty of views on where we’re heading in terms of artificial intelligence, so let’s come back in another 26 years and see whether he’s right about that, too.
Whether Elon Musk was ahead of the curve or not, it’s wild to see how far the internet has come from those days when you couldn’t use the phone and the World Wide Web at the same time.
Elon Musk’s Starlink satellites could pose catastrophic threat to space after scientists report ‘leaks’
Elon Musk’s Starlink satellites could pose a catastrophic threat to our ability to study space.
The Tesla CEO’s ambitious plan to blanket the planet with internet-providing satellites might be creating a much bigger problem than anyone anticipated.
Astronomers have discovered that Starlink satellites are essentially ‘leaking’ radio waves as they orbit Earth, creating interference that threatens sensitive telescopic observations. This isn’t intentional radio traffic used to provide internet service, rather it’s accidental emissions that are leaking from the satellites’ electronics. And the scale of the problem is becoming clear as more satellites join the Starlink constellation.
A team of scientists, led by Steven Tingay at Curtin University in Australia, have been tracking signals from nearly 2,000 Starlink satellites.
Using a prototype telescope from the Square Kilometre Array-Low observatory (SKA-Low) in Australia, their findings were pretty alarming for the future of radio astronomy.
The project, which aims to use more than 100,000 linked telescopes to study cosmic origins, could find its primary mission compromised by Starlink before it’s even fully operational.
Tingay’s research also revealed that the satellites are transmitting in two frequency ranges that are supposed to be protected for radio astronomy by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU).
Even more concerning, the leaked signals are 10,000 times stronger than the faint radio waves from neutral hydrogen clouds that existed when the first stars began forming. These ancient hydrogen signals are precisely what astronomers aim to detect in order to understand how the universe evolved from its earliest moments.
“If you look at the signal strength produced by these unintended emissions, it’s not unusual for them to be comparable to the brightest natural radio sources in the sky,” said Tingay. “It’s like taking the strongest sources in the sky and putting a bunch more artificial ones in the sky and making them move around a lot — that has a lot of impact, especially on experiments that seek to be ultra-sensitive.”
The real problem is the electronic leakage that happens from onboard electronics, regardless of whether the satellites are actively providing internet service, Tingay added.
If Starlink interference continues to grow, space scientists might lose our ability to study the universe’s cosmic history.
“No one’s breaking any rules from SpaceX or Starlink — these types of emissions are not regulated,” says Tingay. “But it is starting to become a discussion in the ITU as to how regulations over this type of emission could be introduced.”
The space company has agreed to switch off their internet-transmitting beams when they fly over important telescopes, but so far, their solutions haven’t been sufficient.
Musk’s brutal spat with Donald Trump sparks fears ‘Dark MAGA conspiracy’ is coming true
Elon Musk’s ties with Donald Trump once symbolised an alliance between tech and politics but their recent spat is sparking fears that the ‘Dark MAGA conspiracy’ is coming true.
The red MAGA caps have become one of the most recognisable symbols in American politics, worn proudly by Donald Trump supporters across the country. The US president’s former close ally, Elon Musk, sported a customised version that boldly read: “Trump Was Right About Everything!”
At a campaign rally, the world’s richest person took things a step further, joking to the crowd: “I’m not just MAGA, I’m dark MAGA”. The comment seemed harmless enough at the time and was reportedly referencing his all-black outfit and matching black MAGA hat.
But as Trump and Musk’s relationship has publicly imploded, some are connecting his words to a much darker theory.
What is Dark MAGA?
The term ‘Dark MAGA’ stems from a fringe conspiracy theory called ‘dark enlightenment.’
The theory allegedly originates from Curtis Yarvin, a 51-year-old computer coder who believes tech billionaires will eventually overthrow the US government and install a CEO to run the US like a corporation instead of a democracy.
According to this theory, traditional democratic institutions would be dismantled and replaced with a high-tech authoritarian regime.
How are Musk and other tech billionaires connected to Dark MAGA?
Seemingly, the world’s richest man is closely tied to Peter Thiel, the PayPal founder who’s been claimed to be a major figure in these circles, as per the conspiracy theory.
Supporters of the theory point that Musk and Thiel leveraged their influence to get JD Vance selected as Trump’s running mate, while refusing to financially back the president’s campaign unless their chosen ‘CEO’ was picked as VP. The next step in this supposed scheme would be to seat Vance as president and remove Trump from power entirely.
While this sounds far-fetched, Trump’s recent cosying up to tech power players like Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, and initially Musk has added fuel to the theory.
What parts of the Dark MAGA theory are ‘coming true’?
While the conspiracy remains a fringe theory, several elements that it predicted are supposedly happening.
For one, the Dark MAGA theory mentioned mass firings of federal employees, which was a plan implemented by Musk’s DOGE team earlier in the year. Meanwhile, Washington institutions have reportedly been briefed about the ‘Dark Enlightenment’ movement, suggesting officials are taking it seriously enough to monitor.
Dr. Katie Pruszynski, a Trump specialist and researcher at the University of Sheffield, said the ideas are ‘not new.’
“This is a very clear example of how fringe figures such as Curtis Yarvin are transformed from a fairly nondescript computer scientist into a political philosopher through social media,” the expert said. “His embrace by Vice President JD Vance and tech billionaires such as Peter Thiel has propelled him to the centre of the far-right’s political intelligensia.
“But his views are not new, and the actions being taken by the Trump administration to hollow out the administrative state do not originate with Yarvin, despite bearing many of the same neo-reactionary hallmarks.”
Dr. Pruszynski added that Yarvin’s views are ‘extreme’ but were made ‘more mainstream by Trump Republicans some time ago, which is far more troubling.’
Elon Musk’s Tesla sees $150,000,000,000 wiped as billionaire makes shocking claim on Donald Trump
Grab the popcorn because the girls are fighting again. While many of us sat back and waited for Russia or China to trigger World War III, little did we know that an altogether more explosive clash of the titans was about to detonate in our front rooms. Donald Trump and Elon Musk have officially gone to war on an epic scale.
Some thought it would only be a matter of time until the President of the United States and the world’s richest man would have a falling out, and while the cracks started to show when Elon Musk began criticizing the POTUS’ big, beautiful bill, few could’ve predicted it would quite go down like this. There are sure to be plenty caught in the crossfire, but already, Tesla has taken a major hit.
Musk took to X to make some scandalous claims about President Donald Trump, sharing a post that seems destined to go down in history as one of the platform’s most-viewed. The coveted Epstein Files have been a hot topic of conversation since Attorney General Pamela Bondi released the first wave in February 2025, and while Donald Trump wasn’t named, Musk claims his name can be found within the archives.
Posting on X, the tech mogul spectacularly claimed: “@realDonaldTrump is in the Epstein files. That is the real reason they have not been made public.
“Mark this post for the future. The truth will come out.”
The spiral continued, with Musk threatening to pull SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft (seemingly marooning astronauts on the International Space Station), and also calling for President Trump’s impeachment.
Trump threatened to cut off government contracts to Musk’s companies, leading to the latter delivering a Hollywood-esque, “Go ahead, make my day.” While the long-term fallout of these posts remains to be seen, it’s already hit Tesla hard in the pocket as it lost around $150 billion in value and closed 14.3% down for the day.
Speaking to CBS MoneyWatch, Wedbush Securities’ Dan Ives warned how the dispute is “sending shivers down the backs of Tesla investors.”
He continued: “This has gone from a candlelight dinner bromance to a knife fight. Neither Musk nor Trump are one to back off.”
In a note to investors, Ives concluded: “The quickly deteriorating friendship and now ‘major beef’ between Musk and Trump is jaw-dropping and a shock to the market, and putting major fear for Tesla investors on what is ahead.”
Musk’s electric vehicle baby had already been struggling since he stepped up as the head of the Department of Government Efficiency, with the billionaire recently having to face a tough earnings call where he addressed a 70% slump in profits. He said he was stepping back from politics to focus on his ventures like Tesla and SpaceX, but as this war of the words rages on, there are concerns that there won’t be any of Tesla left to invest in.
Elon Musk’s little-known perfume venture that ended up making him millions
Elon Musk has many business ventures under his belt, and while he started out with PayPal, he’s since branched out into the likes of X, Tesla, SpaceX, and more.
Most recently, he’s even stepped into politics as the head of the Department of Government Efficiency.
Even though Elon Musk has stepped back from the White House and vowed to return to his other businesses, there are concerns about what his time in politics has done to his companies.
Musk is still by far the world’s richest man, and with $420 billion in the bank, he’s not exactly short of a dollar or two.
Then again, when you make $175.8 million when PayPal was sold to eBay in 2002, that’s quite the windfall.
Among Musk’s many wild ideas, you might not remember when he briefly went into the perfume business. Away from his short-lived Tesla tequila, Musk released a perfume bottle in 2022.
Called ‘Burnt Hair’, the perfume seemed to start as a joke when he posted on X, saying: “Burnt Hair’ – Scent for Men by Singed.”
He said it would be coming soon from The Boring Company and reminded us they’re “the same people that sold you a flamethrower.”
This is a reference to the $500 flamethrowers that The Boring Company sold in 2018.
Burnt hair is apparently ‘the essence of repugnant desire’, with one unattributed description claiming, “Just like leaning over a candle at the dinner table, but without all the hard work.” Another reads, “Stand out in a crowd! Get noticed as you walk through the airport.”
Having sold 10,000 bottles in a matter of hours, a pleased Musk gushed: “With a name like mine, getting into the fragrance business was inevitable – why did I even fight it for so long!?” Burnt Hair was so successful, he changed his X bio to read ‘Perfume Salesman’.
While a questionable product release, it seems many of you were lured in by the idea of Burnt Hair. Posting on X, one person said: “Ok so…I may or may not have just bought Elon Musk’s ‘Burnt Hair’ perfume for $100.”
Another added: “I can’t believe I bought it🤣 wait a minute yes I can.”
A third said: “If people buy this, you might as well start selling your fingernail clippings. Some of the fans will buy anything.”
In total, 30,000 bottles were sold before Musk announced it was sold out. As for what he did with his $3 million, a pre-X Musk joked, “Please buy my perfume, so I can buy Twitter.” The timing was convenient as it was just before he made the $44 billion all-cash acquisition.
Whether serious or not, getting your hands on a bottle is pretty hard because it’s no longer sold on The Boring Company website. Still, if you want to smell like the musk of Musk, there are a few bottles floating around on the internet.
