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The internet
Musk believed the internet, nascent in the 90s, would fundamentally change humanity, he said on the podcast. I would not regard this as a profound insight but rather an obvious one, Musk said.
He compared the internet to the human nervous system: If you didn t have a nervous system, you wouldn t know what s going on. Your fingers wouldn t know what s going on. Your toes wouldn t know what s going on. You d have to do it by diffusion, he said. The way information used to work was by diffusion. One human would have to call another human or write them in a letter. [That was] extremely slow diffusion. And if you wanted access to books, and you did not have a library, you don t have it. That s it.