Elon Musk Creates Storm on Twitter After Posting Old Interview With Bill Gates

The tech maverick is himself working on several projects that are expected to make things described in popular sci-fi books a reality. Musk’s SpaceX is simplifying space travel and hopes to land the first humans on Mars before 2030. One of his other projects, Neuralink, is working on connecting human brains with computers.

Not a day goes by without Elon Musk creating a storm on social media with his posts. This time, the entrepreneur sparked a torrent of comments after he posted a snippet from a 1995 interview with Bill Gates on the David Letterman Show.

The footage shows the Microsoft co-founder talking to the host about the Internet, with Letterman making sarcastic remarks about the World Wide Web and doubting that it will become a big thing.

"I can remember a couple of months ago, there was, like, a big breakthrough announcement that on the Internet, or on some computer deal, they were going to broadcast a baseball game. You could listen to a baseball game on your computer and I just thought to myself, ‘does radio ring a bell?'" the TV host said.

Musk captioned his post with the question: "Given the almost unimaginable nature of the present, what will the future be?"

Given the almost unimaginable nature of the present, what will the future be? pic.twitter.com/b2Yw0AXGVA

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 20, 2021

The entrepreneur’s question prompted wild speculation.

A new species of “mankind”, a superior one.

Through biotech, we will have conquered a good number of the diseases plaguing us today.

— Onyekachukwu Okonji (@Lord__Dexter) December 20, 2021

honestly, i think i would love for more effective communication in the future online

as an example, a meme does so much better of a job conveying nuance than words in a tweet

so neutral link could directly beam memes back and forth and solve human communication 🤣

— Shibetoshi Nakamoto (@BillyM2k) December 20, 2021

Some netizens made crazy predictions.

Sending over the net from one side and materialising on other physical objects. First step will be smells, tastes, shapes and after full material object

— Farkhod Niyazov (@Farkhod_Niyazov) December 20, 2021

For me personally, I hope stripping in space and having no gravity will put less stress on my already swollen ankles and legs. It will also keep a safe distance between me and my customer's boners during lap dances.

— Angela Belcamino (@AngelaBelcamino) December 20, 2021

Others took a dig at Elon Musk.

The future will be you paying your fair share of taxes.

— DemsMight.com (@demsmight) December 20, 2021

Hopefully one where billionaires aren’t a thing and there’s a more even distribution of wealth

— slightlysus (@slightlysus1) December 20, 2021

Many seemed pessimistic about what awaits humanity…

An Orwellian type society, where criticising the tyrants results in torture or execution, but hey at least if we behave we will get our 30g chocolate ration every month.

— (@chappe_de) December 20, 2021

We will die. The future is death.

— Enea⚡ (@Enea_Egld) December 20, 2021

Others said they were happy to live now and deemed that the future is already here.

Future will hold Fully Autonomous cars, traveling homes with FSD so you don't have to drive, Cryptocurrency, 3D printing, AR Glasses 👓.

Wait ...... don't we already have these all things in someway today?

— Yasir Wattoo (@yasirwattu) December 21, 2021

I can't be more grateful for being born in this era. Also can't imagine how would I have lived if I was born in the 1800s or 1900s (probably a nightmare)

Now imagine people in 2100 saying this same thing about us...

— marius manolachi (@marius_manola) December 20, 2021

Still others joked about the issue and marvelled at how quickly humanity has achieved technological progress.

It stuns me that all of this has happened in less than a lifetime. We went from no internet to this massive connectivity and opportunity in less than a lifetime.

Imagine, what would the next 40 years can accomplish!

— Ankur Warikoo (@warikoo) December 20, 2021

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— Fintwit (@fintwit_news) December 20, 2021