Elon Musk's future: torn between Elysium and chip fears

Elon Musk promises the future and the answer is Elysium

What civilization is Elon Musk selling us? The question he himself fired: "This is the future we shall bring into being", he wrote in a tweet accompanied by an image, and the response was swift. One of the first replies doesn't imagine a technological paradise, but Elysium, the movie where the rich live on an orbital station while the rest survive below. Others directly point to Planet of the Apes.

The brain chip and the rest of the package

Suspicion reigns. Some suspect that the ultimate goal is to implant a chip in the brain, warnings are issued about "poisoned candy" and it's recalled that the "artificial baby that already breathes" is not being discussed. Some go beyond the short term and predict a World War III that would bring down capitalism and socialism, the end of nation-states and a world government of corporations. Without basis or data, that part of the debate works as after-dinner science fiction.

It should be noted that some tangents of the issue drift into demographic and racial grounds without any support, and are not reproduced here. Noise, not analysis.

Who pays for the future narrative?

Another participant claims he receives public money and from investors without having companies that generate profits, and sums it up like this: "More than intelligent, this guy is a sly one to watch out for."

For now, the civilization he promises fits in a tweet and fifteen comments.