The future we're building -- and boring | Elon Musk

CA 9+ The future we're building -- and boring | Elon Musk 19,297,390 views May 3, 2017 311K 7.2K Share Save TED 19.6M subscribers Visit http://TED.com to get our entire library of TED Talks, transcripts, translations, personalized Talk recommendations and more. Elon Musk discusses his new project digging tunnels under LA, the latest from Tesla and SpaceX and his motivation for building a future on Mars in conversation with TED's Head Curator, Chris Anderson. The TED Talks channel features the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes (or less). Look for talks on Technology, Entertainment and Design -- plus science, business, global issues, the arts and more. You're welcome to link to or embed these videos, forward them to others and share these ideas with people you know. Follow TED on Twitter: http://twitter.com/TEDTalks Like TED on Facebook: http://facebook.com/TED Subscribe to our channel: http://youtube.com/TED TED's videos may be used for non-commercial purposes under a Creative Commons License, Attribution–Non Commercial–No Derivatives (or the CC BY – NC – ND 4.0 International) and in accordance with our TED Talks Usage Policy (https://www.ted.com/about/our-organiz...). For more information on using TED for commercial purposes (e.g. employee learning, in a film or online course), please submit a Media Request at https://media-requests.ted.com 22,432 Comments Auggie Giuseppe Add a public comment... 2aizen 2aizen 2 years ago I feel like every time elon stutters or says um he's thinking of a way to explain something complex to average people. 25K Bruce Liao Bruce Liao 3 months ago "Why do you want to go to Mars so badly?" Elon: I just want to go home. 1.5K Q. MU Q. MU 3 months ago The most fascinating thing about Elon is that whenever the interviewer laughed or thought his idea was a joke or its too crazy, Elon gave back this sincere and firm look saying in silence "I'm serious and I will make it happen". Charming af. 1K pabrodi pabrodi 3 months ago Elon Musk has a degree in Economics, Physics, and a PhD in Energy Physics. He self-taught rocket science before launching Space X and is capable of talking with the world's best battery engineers at their level. Elon Musk can't be compared with any CEO alive, and good luck to anyone trying to reproduce his achievements. 593 Maheep Gupta Maheep Gupta 3 months ago Unbelievable to see that Elon talked about these ideas 3 years ago and now it is true 262 Anshul V. Kumar Anshul V. Kumar 1 year ago When breathing between sentences, his brain is planning a new company. 12K Кристиан фьорд Кристиан фьорд 3 months ago Dude: "A few years ago people were laughing at you"