How is going to balance his running for office, cameo duties, and Oscar acceptance speeches with his participation in the Year Long Martian Mission for NASA?
Euphonius_Polemic is right, I was paraphrasing Miranda from The Tempest
I had a another scary thought after my post…
Combine Musk Brain Chips with Tesla style over the air firmware updates and you could have a world where corporations don’t need to fire/let go of anyone, just send an OTA update and the fired person never worked at the corp, or simply desires to quit, thinking it’s their idea in the first place. Send an OTA and Trump is President for Life. Send an OTA and we’ve always been at war with Eastasia.
I agree with that, especially in a form factor that actually fits inside the skull.
However, I do suspect that the evil overlord wannabes must be dreaming about this kind of power and that has to be one of the motivating factors alongside continuous advertising reach, even when the customer is asleep.
So long as enough Americans are willing to reward those who are entertaining with political office, we will continue to see appalling persons such as Santos demanding camera time.
We’re not the only ones who do that, of course; Italy suffered Silvio Berlusconi for pretty much the same reason.
Actually, it was Procol Harum whom he was big on. And if I remember correctly, he got most of his inspiration from the neighbor’s mastiff. You can tell by the decline in the quality of his work after the dog died. That whole thing with the Greek restaurant was some weak sauce.