Zanny Minton Beddoes

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The Intelligence from The Economist · The Elon game: Musk’s vision of the future · 24 Jul 2026 podcast

you say things like

quote Civil War in Britain is inevitable, just a question of the year.

And so I that's where we had sort of uh extended and heated exchanges, particularly on Europe, where he has this kind of view of Europe.

As a sort of hellhole overrun with Muslim migrants who are ruining European civilization and it's just frankly not true.

why?

Why should you why should you be able to shape European politics?

Wasn't you don't even live there?

exercised about that because I really do think he is doing a huge amount to shape

perceptions of Europe and they are just wrong.

Well, SpaceX IPO was raising a large amount of capital to essentially build out his ambitions, and those ambitions are

expanding the realm of consciousness into an interplanetary level.

But actually in so practical terms, I think his focus is as much on

Building out.

AI and building out through orbital data centers AI capacity.

And I think there is a vision across his companies, which is why there's endless speculation about whether SpaceX and Tesla at some point will be merged, because it is humanoid robots, which is what Tesla is now also focusing on, which will be the physical instantiation of the AI intelligence, and orbital data centers, which is where you will

get a huge amount of compute capacity in future.

So it's hard to get your head around the scale of change that he foresees.

Five years.

I asked him what would life be like in ten years and he went, ten years, twenty thirty six.

Incredible abundance.

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