Bezos Predicts That Millions Will Live In Space Kind Of Soon

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Amazon laminitis Jeff Bezos made a uncommon nationalist quality astatine Italian Tech Week successful Turin connected Friday and utilized nan opportunity to foretell that millions of group will beryllium surviving successful abstraction “in nan adjacent mates of decades,” nan Financial Times reports.

Speaking pinch John Elkann, a scion of Italy’s Agnelli dynasty, Bezos, who besides founded rocket institution Blue Origin, insisted group will beryllium surviving successful abstraction “mostly because they want to,” and that robots will grip nan grunt work, while immense AI information centers float overhead.

The pronouncement sounds a small for illustration Bezos trying to one-up his abstraction rival. Elon Musk has spent years predicting humans will colonize Mars and suggested a cardinal group could unrecorded location by 2050, which is correct astir nan corner, basically. Maybe some gazillionaires are losing touch, aliases other they cognize thing nan remainder of america refreshing Zillow do not.

Bezos was arsenic bullish connected different fronts, defending nan AI finance roar arsenic a “good” benignant of bubble fixed that it’s “industrial” alternatively than “financial.”

“There has ne'er been a amended clip to beryllium excited astir nan future,” he reportedly declared, arsenic assemblage members (in our imagination) exchanged uncertain glances crossed nan Turin auditorium.

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