外国的，这里是机长讲话，欢迎登上我们前往火星的飞船，登船已经完成，所有系统均已就绪，我们也确信不会把冠状病毒带到外太空，为了各位的配合。顺便说一句，我们已准备好发射。第一条规则，不要惊慌。乘务组，准备起飞。[音乐] 谢谢。[音乐] 还有 20 秒就离开，15 秒。[音乐] 外国的，这里是机长，从驾驶舱向各位通报最新情况。我们已安然无恙地抵达地球轨道。请允许我特别欢迎一位非常特殊的乘客，一位非凡的梦想家、一位多才多艺的工程师、一位超级聪明的企业家，以及至少不是那个让此次火星任务成为可能的人。请大家热烈欢迎埃隆·马斯克先生。请看看我们美丽的星球，难道不

壮丽吗？尽管我和大家一样好奇，想看看火星，但我真的很期待回到我们的故园。[音乐] 70 年代的南非，一个来自比勒陀利亚、面对童年问题的男孩，每天阅读 10 小时的《星球大战》和科幻作品，但这个孩子对机器和赚钱很有天赋。12 岁时，他在老牌的 Commodore 上编写了自己的第一个电脑游戏。年轻的埃隆以 500 美元卖掉了 Blastar。开发东西，让它成长，尽快卖掉，这就是我们如何让他发了财，并给了他更进一步的机会。这就是方式，他绝不想听到的一句话：“你现在入伍了。”于是他给自己办了本护照，搬到加拿大，把南非种族隔离政权抛在身后。当时他 16 岁。在金斯顿待了一段时间后，他离开了加拿大

去了宾夕法尼亚，取得学士学位，然后南下，啊，去了斯坦福大学所在的帕洛阿尔托，所有的硅谷梦想都即将在那里成真。埃隆是那些缔造硅谷传奇的人之一。2000 美元、一辆车和一台电脑，除此之外一无所有。他和弟弟金巴尔创办了 Zip2，这家公司向报纸提供在线城市指南软件并授予其使用许可。4 年后，他以 3.07 亿美元将其卖给康柏。相当精彩的故事，但这只是开始。那个时代的典型故事：开发和投资，寻找盟友，合并，颠覆，PayPal 崛起。他最初的愿景是利用数字化让人们办事更容易。埃隆·马斯克帮助永远改变了金融业。PayPal 以 1.

50 亿美元卖给了 eBay。埃隆持有 11.

7% 的股份，是这场大游戏中的大赢家。他用这些钱让世界变得更美好。他向世界上根基最稳固的市场发起进攻：汽车行业。我们创立 Tesla 是为了改变世界。Tesla，将颠覆发挥到极致。并非一切都进展完美，嗯，但他的持久耐力证明他是对的。他正推动所有竞争对手前进，扩展精英技术领先优势、基础设施和物流；如有必要，他就在工厂工作和睡觉。外来呃。[音乐] 很快，非常快。我们已决定把 Tesla 欧洲超级工厂，呃，建在柏林地区。是的，而 Tesla 正处于一个理念的最前沿：自动驾驶很无聊。所以对我们这家小型初创公司来说，我们必须从一款处于、处于低产量阶段

而且必然昂贵的汽车起步。他们对电动汽车的看法是，它不好看、不快、性能也不高。我们想把这一切、这一切全都打破。这就是我们力求实现的目标。把大量时间留给重要的事情，为有趣的事节省时间。嗯，驾驶 Tesla 的确很有趣，但在无尽的高速公路上，就连乘车也会令人疲倦。这很人性化，我们会感到无聊。很快，让汽车自己驾驶，在它工作时给大脑找点食粮。最后但同样重要的是，用不伤害地球的能源为它提供动力。埃隆承担起了自己的责任，但这永远不够，还需要做得更多。埃隆无法停止思考未来，思考如何让事物运行得更好、更高效。一位梦想家，一个永不放弃的人，尽管

曾有过几个时刻，放弃本来会是一个再合理不过的选择。外来。SpaceX 不只是一门生意，它是爱好，是热情。埃隆是首席执行官，也是它的第一位宇宙飞船设计师。这确实全都是火箭科学。很多人嘲笑他：拥有数10亿美元的 NASA，怀着冷酷无情而极度严肃抱负的俄罗斯人。SpaceX 的整个使命是首项太空探索技术，而那就是，呃，帮助人类成为一个太空银行文明。把美国人送到了国际空间站。UE，私营经济比国有经济更高效、更可持续。载人龙飞船是对那些夸张过头的体制内火箭专家一次轻柔的打脸。俄罗斯人把这当成了针对自己的事。埃隆·马斯克绝不能被他们引用，太成功了。俄罗斯，有些事情永远

不会改变。一个人能改变世界吗？是的，当然。埃隆·马斯克做到了，而且他并未止步于此。我认为，这正是那些让人们对未来感到兴奋的事情之一。我们希望科幻小说和电影里的事物不要永远只是科幻，我们希望它们有朝一日成为现实。如果能通过连接身体与机器来帮助残障人士，重新连接神经系统疾病，会怎样？变出来了，Neuralink。如果我们能摆脱城市街道上的交通，在其下方挖一条又深又长的隧道，把汽车从城市的一端射到另一端，会怎样？嘿，变出来了，The Boring Company。顺便说一句，这个名字是有史以来最棒的双关语之一。而且别停，如果我们能用汽车做到这一点，为什么不能用货物和人来做？全速前进，600

公里，35 分钟。做就是了。嘿，变出来了，超级高铁。但那一切都局限于地球。伸手摘取恒星和行星，我们已经在前往火星的路上。[音乐] 这里是机长讲话，嗯，更准确地说是在喘气。真是一次旅程，而且还没结束。让我们听听那位本人怎么说。现在我想请埃隆上台，与，实际上，施普林格首席执行官马蒂亚斯·达夫纳聊一会儿。[掌声] [音乐] [掌声] 嗯，那很有趣。是的，我很高兴你喜欢。是的，就像一次乘坐体验。我的意思是，我觉得你可以为此收费，这太棒了。我的意思是，是的，这 2 块屏幕和角度变化确实让体验截然不同。就像，那感觉很棒，像迪士尼，对吧？埃隆，除了今晚这次特殊的火星之旅，你认为

现实而言，人类会在什么时候首次登陆火星？嗯，我认为这，我相当有信心是在大约 6 年后。所以每次，火星，呃，地球的模同步大约每 26 个月发生一次。所以今年夏天我们经历了一次，这意味着粗略地说大概约 2 年后还会有一次，嗯，再过 2 年又有一次。所以我想说，如果你说从现在起 6 年，我认为把握非常大。呃，如果运气好，也许是 4 年。然后我们想尝试在 2 年后向那里发送一艘、一架，呃，无人驾驶飞行器。你的首次轨道之旅会在什么时候？谁会发生？我不知道，可能在 2 年或 3 年后。我的意思是，我主要关心的是开发一种能让很多人前往火星、让生命成为多行星物种的技术，

在月球上建立基地，在火星上建立城市。我认为，努力尽快在火星上建立一座自给自足的城市很重要。我的意思是，我对地球的未来感到乐观，但为生命整体准备一份人寿保险也很重要。它会是一种商业性质的轨道旅游，还是更像一种 B 计划，以防所有者的事情发展得不那么好？它不完全是 B 计划。呃，它更像是，我认为，我认为这里有 2 个方面。呃，一个是我们希望拥有一个鼓舞人心、令人兴奋的未来。哪些关于未来的事情会让你感到鼓舞和兴奋？我认为，有这样一个未来：我们成为一个航天文明，置身于群星之间。我想每个孩子都会为此兴奋，

你甚至不需要教他们，他们就是明白，这就像是本能。因此，对我们来说，拥有喜欢的理由，比如，拥有对生活感到兴奋的理由，非常重要。比如当你早晨醒来时，不能只有问题。好吧，我知道这个房间里的每个人都要处理很多棘手的问题，但你知道，生活必须不止于此。所以，你知道，我认为在这样一个未来里，你可以说，嘿，即便不是你，也会有人能去那里；我们能在月球上建基地，我们会在火星上建一座，你知道，城市，也许还能走得更远，去木星的卫星之类的地方。我认为那是一个非常令人兴奋的未来。而且，然后，而且我认为大多数人也这么想。嗯。你真的想被埋葬在火星上吗？只要不是撞上去。[笑声] 呃，是的，我的意思是，

如果你愿意听，我们所有人有一天都会死。嗯，所以如果你有一天会死，我会想，好吧，你想被埋在怪物上吗，我会想，火星听起来很酷。生于地球，迪翁曾经，那是，呃，你知道，如果你可以选择。嗯，2 年前，我和杰克·马有过一次谈话，我们谈到了杰夫·贝索斯有关，呃，轨道的计划。他说，嗯，让杰夫·贝索斯负责，呃，轨道，我负责地球。你似乎两者都在负责。是的，基本上，Tesla 是为了努力确保地球上的未来是美好的，而 SpaceX 则是为了确保地球之外有一个美好的未来，基本上。嗯，所以显然，我们必须拥有可持续能源，呃，包括能源消费和生产，呃，比如危险的太阳能板和电池，

我认为那是实现可持续能源生产的关键方式之一，而且电池对风力发电也很有用。所以，然后电，然后你需要通过消费来消费电力，也就是电动汽车。嗯，而且，嗯，你知道，我认为可以这样看待这些事情：比如说，好吧，如果你从未来回望，问 Tesla 最根本的益处是什么，我会说，或许应该根据 Tesla 将可持续能源时代的到来加速了多少年、多少年来评估。这就是，就像，我会用这种方式衡量 Tesla 的益处。然后对于 SpaceX，就是说，好吧，我们在多大程度上提高了人类成为一个航天文明的概率。我非常清楚地记得 2014 年，当时我们在举办金色

方向盘奖，在牛津这里，你获得了，呃，终身成就奖。我当时和一家非常大的德国汽车公司时任非常成功且知名的首席执行官坐在第一排。当你在台上时，我问他，这个人对你来说难道不危险吗？我的意思是，这看起来真的很严重。他说，哦，不，别担心。首先，电力驾驶这个整体理念永远不会成为大众市场，当然。其次，这些人，这些硅谷的人根本不懂工程，不懂如何制造真正漂亮、出色的汽车，所以我们不必担心。那时 Tesla 的市值是 230 亿，今天是 5360 亿美元。大众当时的市值是 860 亿，如今是 770 亿。而你，你和 Tesla 的规模是它的 2.5 倍。

比宝马、大众和戴姆勒。我甚至说过它高得离谱。我的意思是，我该怎么办？你是说，你有没有认为过股价太高？很久以前，比如拆股前它达到100、800的时候，然后听我说。但你知道，我会告诉你，然后美国证券交易委员会又投诉了。我的意思是，就像，你知道，对你而言，收购一家现有企业、一家大型汽车公司，是一个严肃的选项吗？嗯，我，我认为我们肯定不会发起敌意收购。所以我想，如果有一项友好交易，如果有人说，嘿，我们认为与 Tesla 合并会是个好主意，我们当然会进行那场谈话。嗯，但是，你知道，我们不想，你知道，处于某种敌意、敌意收购的局面。你是否感觉这些天现有企业非常自满，

长度让你觉得自己，我的意思是，那种无望的颠覆者，但他们知道该怎么做，还是他们对你非常礼貌友好？你是指当时还是不是当时？哦，不，不，是今天。每个人都超级友好。我不会说现在有一场奔跑。是的，我们很难描述他们的回应，超级友好。嗯，他们用了很多形容词。嗯，我认为其中没有一个是正面的。所以我们尝试了，我们真的非常努力地说服许多公司。呃，说实话，我参加过太多座谈会。呃，但是，嗯，他们总体上，是的，总体上表达的沉积物就是你之前提到的那种，几乎是普遍的，尤其是，呃，比如回到2008年或2007年，也就是我们在2007年首次发布道路的时候。嗯，是的，我的意思是，基本上，他们只是

只是说，嗯，你们基本上是一群傻瓜。嗯，我的意思是，他们通常会说，嗯，创办汽车公司的人疯了，你会赔光所有的钱。我当时想，我觉得我很可能会赔光所有的钱，我同意。我，并不是我认为它会成功。我以为我们成功的概率也许是 10。所以后来人们会说，你会，它会失败，你会输掉、输掉一切。就像，是啊，可能是真的。是啊，还有什么新鲜的吗？几年前，我们，我们，我们在美国见过面。一个人在座谈会上问你，呃，自动驾驶会在什么时候获批。你说，我不太在乎它什么时候获批，我更在意车里的人类什么时候会被禁止。然后那个人说，嗯，那真的

不现实，那永远不会发生。在，呃，在汽车里，人们想主动做点什么。然后你说，嗯，100年前，没人能想象，呃，呃，没有电梯男孩的电梯；今天，没人能想象有电梯男孩的电梯。是的。那么自动驾驶究竟究竟会在什么时候实现？你们什么时候能够做到？它什么时候会获批？好吧，只在我们之间说。是的，这里是一个非常私密的小圈子。是的。嗯，所以，首先要说清楚，我并不，我并不反对人们驾驶。呃，所以我认为，只要是我能够想象得到的未来，人们基本上仍会驾驶汽车，只是自己开车会变得越来越少见。虽然开着一辆，你知道的，操控良好的汽车，在风景优美的蜿蜒道路上行驶很有趣

地形，当然，那，那很有趣。嗯，但在糟糕的交通大拥堵中开车并不好玩，比如，你知道，穿过极度拥堵的交通，开车一点也不好玩。所以我认为，大多数时候人们不太可能想通勤，或者和他们的，呃，自己驾驶。嗯，而且，你知道，人们通常每天花 1.5 小时，也许 2 小时，呃，平均用于驾驶。嗯，尤其比如说在加利福尼亚之类的地方，这非常普遍。嗯，有些人实际上有时每天通勤多达 3 小时，这相当疯狂。所以，呃，所以我，所以我认为，我认为，呃，嗯，如果你说快进到比如 10 年后，我认为 10 年后，几乎所有汽车都会，都会具备完全自动驾驶能力。呃，所有生产的新成本

所以，现有车队里大约有 20 亿辆汽车和卡车。嗯，新车产量大约是车队规模的 5%，也就是大约 1 亿辆。所以即使到了所有汽车都实现自动驾驶的时间点，假设车队中的汽车和卡车、卡车数量保持不变，你知道，仍然需要 20 年才能更换所有汽车。嗯，但是，比如说 10 年后，我会说绝大多数汽车都是电动的，比如也许 70%、80% 或更多。呃，而且，呃，几乎所有车都实现自动驾驶。电动、自动驾驶绝对是未来，毫无疑问，只是什么时候的问题。嗯，但然后，就像我说的，一旦人们认为这意味着全球车队会立刻完成更换，实际上并非如此，你必须从那个时间点再往后走 20 年。

从所有汽车、所有新车都成为电动汽车的时间点算起，不到 20 年，整个车队就会完成更换。嗯，这只是一个重要的，这不像有些人习惯了手机之类的东西，更换周期是 2 年或 3 年，但汽车是贵得多的资产，寿命更长。呃，不管怎样，真正回答你的问题，嗯，我极其有信心，呃，会在明年实现完全自动驾驶，呃，并向 Tesla 客户群发布。现在，不确定的是获得监管批准需要多长时间，会花多久。但我认为，如果你能够积累，呃，数十亿公里的自动驾驶里程，那么就很难反驳了。再看看事故率，呃，当汽车

处于自动驾驶状态与非自动驾驶状态时的事故率。事实上，我们，我们的统计数据已经显示，当汽车开启 Autopilot 或未开启 Autopilot 时存在巨大差异。即使使用当前的 Autopilot 软件，安全性也高得多。而我们讨论的是 5 级自动驾驶，也就是真正的完全自动驾驶。欧洲会落在后面，还是会和美国或中国同时批准？很难说，呃，具体什么时候会获批。我，我的意思是，只是，并且我们的客户已经知道这一点，但是，欧盟监管机构是最保守的。嗯，而且，呃，我不知道人们是否希望情况如此。我们的客户对此有点不满。但是，嗯，是的，他们每 6 个月才开一次会，也许可以更频繁地开会，我不知道。嗯，所以，是的，但我认为至少

有些司法管辖区会在明年允许完全自动驾驶。好的，恰好 1 年前，你就在这栋楼里宣布，你计划在柏林附近建设一个新基地。是的。几个月后，Junior 开始了。你想在明年 7 月前完工。我们今天早上简单参观了一下，它的进展程度令人印象深刻，几乎难以置信。德国，尤其是皮卡迪利，尤其是柏林，并不以按时、按预算完成建筑工地项目闻名。是的。所以你打造了某种完整的柏林机场项目。为什么是柏林？你为什么要去德国、去柏林完成那个大型项目？当然。嗯，首先，我实际上是德国的忠实拥趸。我热爱德国，它很棒。我会，你知道，嗯，我有很多朋友，嗯，

呃，德国朋友，而且我认为柏林是一座非常有趣的城市。嗯，而且，呃，我认为它，另外还有，从地点角度来看，呃，比如说年轻人，可以在柏林市内以合理的价格住公寓；但如果有人组建了家庭，他们仍然买得起房子。所以这是一个位置不错的选择，能为所有年龄和收入水平的人提供，你知道，良好的生活条件。而且，而且，嗯，我相信它没那么穷，但，但肯定很性感。你能想象吗？所以当我们开放，呃，顺便说一句，你们都受邀参加，当我们为柏林超级工厂举行开幕活动时，我们会举办，呃，一场盛大的派对。嗯，你知道，我们会，比如从白天开始，播放更多某种家庭音乐，呃，然后逐渐变得

更硬核，然后，你知道，从午夜播放电子乐直到黎明。伙计，你计划自己在柏林待更长时间吗？你想部分时间住在这里吗？事实上，我，是的，我会在这里待很多时间。你今晚睡在哪里？在，在今晚的工厂里。在工厂里？嗯，严格来说是在工厂的一间会议室里，不过是的。你今晚睡在尚未完工的工厂里的一间会议室？是的，这能让我很好地感受正在发生什么。一个人还是？是的，我想是的。这是一个邀请。嗯，是的。好的，埃隆，你有这么多项目。不只是 Tesla 或 SpaceX，还有 Neuraling、The Boring Company，那么多事情。我们上次讨论时，我问你，在

可预见的未来，对你而言最重要的项目或最重要的议题是什么，你说，那确实是人工智能将在我们的社会中扮演的角色。你能解释一下为什么吗？为什么它是一个巨大的机会，却似乎也让你担忧？呃，是的，我认为，嗯，我的意思是，人类长期以来一直是地球上最小的生物，而随着通常所谓的通用人工智能出现，这种情况将会改变。呃，所以，这指的是一种在各个方面都比人类更聪明的人工智能。它甚至可以模拟人类。所以，你知道，我认为这是我们应该担忧的事情。我认为政府应该监督人工智能的发展，尤其是超级先进的人工智能。任何对公众构成潜在，呃，危险的事物，我们通常都认同应该接受政府监督，以确保

公众安全得到保障。因为你觉得有一天人类可能会服务于机器，而不是反过来？说实话，当我看到人们盯着手机时，我觉得我们已经在服务机器了。是的，就像每个人都在，呃，回答问题。你知道，每当你进行搜索或添加信息时，你就有点是在构建这个，这个数字群体心智。嗯，但是，是的，呃，通用人工智能的到来被称作“奇点”是有原因的，因为就像黑洞这种单一奇点一样，很难预测会发生什么。嗯，所以并不是说通用人工智能的到来一定是坏事，但坏事是可能出现的结果之一。那么在雷·引语的定义中，奇点什么时候

为什么会发生？嗯，我想你是说他，他预测是2025年。

我认为那，呃，相当准确。怎样才能避免它届时，呃，对人类构成的威胁大于机会？这是一个治理问题吗？也就是说，不要让太多权力集中在 1 个人或少数人手中？或者你会，你会如何确保它朝正确方向发展？我认为我们应该进行政府监督，就像我们对汽车、飞机、呃，食品和药品所做的一样。这些都，呃，你知道，有监管机构监督这些领域的发展，以确保公众安全。嗯，我认为数字超级智能也可能构成公共安全风险，所以它应该受到，我认为监管机构密切关注这一点非常重要。谁应该

拥有数据？到那时的数据？我认为每个人都应该拥有自己的数据，比如这里的个人拥有他们的数据。嗯，当然不应该被某个网站的条款和条件欺骗，然后突然之间你就不再拥有自己的数据了，那太疯狂了。呃，反正谁会读那些条款和条件呢？所以，呃，但我认为这只是，你知道，就像我们不会仅仅为了好玩，就让人们在后院研制核弹。你知道，那，那看起来很疯狂。所以我认为数字超级智能有可能比核弹更危险。所以，是的，我们就是应该有人密切关注。我们不能让囚犯在这里管理疯人院，而这是一个全球性问题，因为即使我们做得好，但中国有其他规则和不同的监管框架，那

是另一个，呃，是的，我不，我不认为大学。是的，我通常喜欢，这是我从人工智能开发者那里听到的反驳之一，而 Tesla 也在开发一种用于自动驾驶的人工智能，但那是一种非常狭窄的人工智能。就像，嗯，汽车不会在某个星期天的某一天醒来并接管世界。嗯，所以，所以它，呃，但是我得到的反驳是，嗯，你知道，中国会不受约束地，呃，发展人工智能，所以如果我们实施监管，而它拖慢了我们的速度，那么中国就会拥有它。我就说，听着，根据我与中国政府官员的谈话，他们也相当担忧人工智能，而且他们，呃，事实上，他们可能比我认为的其他国家更有可能实施良好的监督。什么是

总的来说，我们面临的最大，呃，挑战是什么，呃，不只是就 AI 而言，最需要解决的问题是什么，对人类未来最大的威胁是什么？[音乐] 嗯，AI 无疑是最大的风险之一，它可能是最大的风险。嗯，我认为我们需要警惕人口崩溃。这对大多数人来说有些反直觉，他们觉得，嗯，人类这么多，可能太多了，但那只是因为他们住在城市里。是的，如果你是一架飞机，并往下看，他们说，如果你扔下一个，一个食人族，你有多大概率会砸中一个人？基本上永远不会。事实上，太空里的东西一直在掉下来，天然陨石、旧火箭级，一直都有，但没人担心，因为实际的

事实上，嗯，有一个很不错、很酷的网站叫 Wait But Why，而 Scott Tim Urban，他实际上算过，呃，地球上的所有人类都可以装进纽约市的一层楼里，甚至不需要上面的楼层。所以实际上，从地球上看，人类的横截面极其微小，基本上小到可以忽略不计，几乎什么都没有。嗯，所以我们需要警惕人口崩溃、低增长率。我认为这是一个很大的风险，而且这也不是什么绝密信息，你可以去看维基百科，你知道，增长率。所以，而且这实际上，这，这，这绝对是文明以呜咽而非巨响告终，呃，因为那会是一个悲伤的结局。嗯，到时候平均年龄变得非常高，而实际上

年轻人实际上，呃，事实上被奴役，以照顾老年人。这不是一种好的终结方式。你有没有任何处理你刚才所谈这些话题的新项目？嗯，在孩子这方面，我正努力树立一个好榜样。6个孩子。是的，目前如此。你花多少时间陪他们？我，我陪他们的时间，大约就是他们想跟我一起度过的那么多。是的，我是说，他们不是……嗯，一个还只是婴儿，现在还有14岁和16岁的，青少年，嗯，通常不太想和父母待在一起。你知道，我们刚过了感恩节周末，所以所有孩子都过来了。嗯，所以，你知道，如果他们想多陪我一些，我就说，比如，哦，你们应该……我其实问过他们，确定我们不想多待一会儿吗？他们说不。所以我觉得这大概是

合适的时间，因为他们，那差不多就是，他们不想再多待了。所以我认为我们确实应该认真对待这件事，人口崩溃、人工智能；显然，可持续能源很重要，呃，我们越快转向可持续能源，在气候问题上冒的险就越小。而且，嗯，我认为医疗领域会有很多突破，尤其是在合成 mRNA 方面。你基本上可以用合成 RNA、DNA 做任何事情，它真的就像一个计算机程序。所以，我是说，我认为只要有足够的，只要，呃，付出不算太疯狂的努力，你大概可以阻止衰老、逆转衰老，如果你不是，嗯，这些是，你基本上可以加入，你可以把某个人变成一个自由和蝴蝶，只要你愿意，用

正确的 DNA 序列。所以，我是说，毛毛虫就是这么做的，所以，是的。但你的 Neuralink 项目从某种意义上说是在增强人类智能，以对抗人工智能，这就是它的目的吗？对，所以 Neuralink，呃，在短期到中期内，Neuralink 实际上只会帮助治愈，呃，脑损伤、脑部和脊柱损伤。所以，比如，如果某个人是一个，事实上，我们首批，呃，植入人体的设备将用于，呃，四肢瘫痪者、四肢麻痹者，让他们仅凭他们可能……来控制计算机或手机。所以，比如你可以想象，如果 Stephen Hawking 只需说话，呃，而且能以正常速度、甚至比正常速度更快地说话。回顾过去数千年，到目前为止，人类最重要的发明是什么，在过去的1000

年，嗯，我、我猜是数百万个数百万，嗯，好吧，我想是语言，我将能够交谈和表达概念，而且，嗯，这、这可能是人类最大的发明：语言。这是一个我们出版业非常喜欢的答案。是的，当然，你知道，书写是，对，确实令人难以置信，对吧？书写确实带来了巨大的改变。那个古腾堡，他真的知道自己在做什么。你和尼古拉斯·Tesla有一个共同点，那就是过目不忘。这只是一种天赋，还是有时也是一种负担，因为你记住的东西太多了？我在某些方面过目不忘，嗯，对于技术方面的东西，我的记忆力非常好。所以对人类来说，是的，你知道，计算机的记忆力要好得多，计算机的记忆力真的很好。音乐为什么

对你如此重要，尤其是 techno 音乐？嗯，它相当有趣。我觉得这是一种，你知道，你想要，我不知道，感受到最大限度的人性，你知道，而且，呃，所以我认为，当人们进行某种锐舞、听着好音乐时，那可能就像，嘿，最大限度的人性，你知道，你想真正感受到，呃，你知道，这就像，像是真正让你产生感觉的东西，你知道，而且我认为，呃，你知道，和朋友们一起玩得开心，然后，你知道，就是疯狂、疯狂地跳舞，很有趣。也许，你知道，techno 音乐是你在柏林建设大型项目的秘密原因。是的，老实说，那是一个、那是一个重要因素。好，埃隆，最后一个问题。你在威尼斯举办化装舞会庆祝了自己的30岁生日，而据我所知，你40岁生日时曾和一名武士刀剑客打斗。

你对明年的15岁生日有什么计划？嗯，好吧，所以我的40岁生日是在、是在威尼斯，呃，严格来说，那是一面末日后的化装墙，呃，末日之后你实际上还会有多少衣服，你知道，会有点破烂，有点烧焦，你知道，嗯，所以，嗯，50岁还没有计划。是的，半世纪派对，嗯，我得想点什么，嗯，通常会采用某种疯狂的主题。那、那、那、那场派对上，我最后和世界冠军肿瘤摔跤手摔了起来，顺便说一句，这还导致我夸耀了脖子里的一块椎间盘，所以，是的，5分钟的荣耀换来5年的疼痛，嗯，那真的、真的很痛，嗯，所以那场派对是，嗯，维多利亚时代的日本蒸汽朋克风格，所以那很酷，呃，我得想点什么

用于半世纪报告。你还有一点时间思考。在地球上待了半个世纪，也还好，我还活着。哇，酷。最后再问一个问题。一次晚餐时，我问你生命的意义是什么，42，你过了一会儿说，过了一会儿，好吧，可能是这种美妙的法国奶酪。你能解释一下吗？哦，好吧，我只是说，你知道，你应该花一点时间欣赏生活中的事物和那些感受，嗯，食物不可思议，呃，而且，呃，就像你能体验到那么多美好的东西，其中有些真的不花钱，嗯，你知道，在大自然中散步，或者只是吃一顿美餐，然后就会觉得，哇，这相当棒，你知道，而且，呃，我们应该花一点时间欣赏这些、这些小事，大事，嗯，那些事物

那些触动你内心的事物。我认为那或许就是生命的意义，这是我能想到的最接近的定义。非常感谢你，埃隆。好的，这里又是你们的机长在讲话。谢谢你，埃隆，也谢谢你，马蒂亚斯。很高兴各位来到机上，并让我们了解到这么多关于未来的事情。在我回来介绍有关我们航班的信息之前，现在我很荣幸地欢迎延·斯潘部长，并请他登台分享他对埃隆·马斯克的成就和责任的看法。船只的发言权交给您，部长先生。[掌声] 谢谢。那么，祝各位度过一个美好的夜晚。在地球上的斗争与迈向火星的愿景之间的这个夜晚，至于地球，我们今天在一个非常特殊的时期相聚。我们正在经历最严重的疫情

自西班牙流感以来，至今大约已有10个月，各国政府，但最重要的是世界各地的公民，一直在抗击这种病毒及其后果。人们正在经历大量的痛苦、困境和牺牲。然而今天，在12月初，我们也有理由保持乐观。我们可以非常乐观地认为，我们将以前所未有的速度，比人类历史上任何时候都更快地获得一种针对这种新病毒的有效疫苗。有了疫苗，我们终于可以期待拥有一种能够帮助我们战胜病毒的工具。确实，有些人对接种疫苗心存疑虑，甚至到了不惜一切代价拒绝它的程度。这是一种我觉得非常难以理解的态度。正是疫苗接种首次使人类得以从许多

折磨我们祖先数百年的致命疾病中解放出来，那些瘟疫曾导致恐惧和迷信，继而成为进步的障碍。疫苗接种就是进步，而如今，对许多人而言，“进步”这个词与一个名字同义，那就是埃隆·马斯克。马斯克先生，我很高兴有幸在这些非常特殊的时期向您致敬。毫无疑问，您是一位有远见的人。马斯克这个名字代表着常常远远超前于时代的理念：通过PayPal在线支付，通过Tesla实现电动交通和可持续能源；而马斯克这个名字也经常代表一些乍看之下可能有点疯狂的理念。HIPAA Loop项目就是其中之一，其愿景是让人员和货物能在双管中加速至最高每小时1 200公里的速度

每小时，这还包括将人脑连接到计算机，也就是刚才讨论的神经链接主题，以及自2016年以来的裁决研究，当然，SpaceX的私人太空旅行也是这项使命不可或缺的一部分。多亏埃隆·马斯克，看似疯狂的想法变成了现实。埃隆·马斯克认识到，我们人类拥有的最强大之物就是我们的想法。Tesla能够崛起成为世界上价值最高的汽车制造商，主要并不是其本身数据的结果。Tesla的更差之处反映了一种理念、一种愿景，一种让许多人能够相信进步、相信更美好未来的理念。当然，它也有商业专长的支持。埃隆·马斯克正在马克土地上的布伦贝格建设他最新的超级工厂。许多德国人把

布隆贝格与诗人特奥多尔·丰塔纳联系在一起，他曾走过马克的感知。丰塔纳写道：“傲慢与谦卑之间存在第3种特质，它是生命的一部分，简单来说就是勇气。”顺便说一句，如果您还不知道丰塔纳，为了您的道格拉斯·亚当非数字书架，我希望确实有这样一个书架，丰塔纳，如果您还不了解他，马斯克先生，我认为这句话很适合您，因为您当然拥有勇气。与此同时，您选择德国作为工厂所在地，很难说只是勇气问题，同样也是精明计算的结果。德国是汽车、汽车先驱的国度：卡尔和更好的奔驰、鲁道夫·柴油、戈特利布·戴姆勒、维里·南·保时捷。德国人取得的成就、德国制造的成就清单

很长。马斯克先生，您知道，德国至今仍拥有巨大的创新奇异，许多训练有素、富有创造力的人，以及坚实的基础设施，这为勇敢的创业活动、为明天的创新者和先驱提供了极佳条件。与此同时，您大概也认识了德语中的“伯卡蒂”一词。确实，确实，仅用几个月时间从零开始建造一座工厂，即使对我们国家来说也是一种全新的经历，至少也是一种我们似乎已经遗忘的经历。我们这边需要多一点大众的勇气，来减少官僚主义障碍，从而促进创新，因为同样真实的是，创新需要可靠的框架，也需要自由才能蓬勃发展。在德意志联邦共和国成立以来的70年间，我们已经

常常成功地取得这种平衡。德国是一个经济强国，国际化且自由，是欧洲稳定与敌意的锚点，这是我们今天可以为之自豪的事情。然而，在21世纪20年代伊始，我们也在问自己许多问题：我们这20年代……我们希望20年代是什么样子？在复杂时期，我们怎样才能找到正确答案？我们希望给孩子们留下什么遗产？在这种自由与安全受到许多地方威胁的时代，我们怎样才能维持德国的成功模式，维系并扩大我们的繁荣以及与之相伴的自由和安全？所以，我们需要一个鼓励经济活动的强大国家，因为德国企业不能……有些……因为德国企业遭受了一些……

在与来自U.的垄断企业竞争时存在明显劣势。

S，并与中国那样的国家经济竞争。作为回报，我们的国家应大规模投资于教育、基础设施和研究，并应推出并非针对个别公司、而是针对整个经济部门的扶持计划。在20年代，我们希望继续成为专家冠军、创新大师，推进数字化，促进研究，并强化创业文化。只有进步才能确保下一代过得更好。这一切都是为了给各种想法留出蓬勃发展的空间。根据我们听到的一切，埃隆·马斯克懂得这一点，并努力在他的企业中付诸实施。成为有远见的人并不一定意味着永远正确，也不意味着没有矛盾。不久前，埃隆·马斯克和我才得以与彼此见面……

亲自见面，我们也得以谈论疫情形势。Tesla通过其子公司“格鲁姆和自动化自动化”，与德国—荷兰生物技术公司库拉克建立合作伙伴关系，后者正在研究冠状病毒疫苗。魁北克正在使用由埃隆·马斯克旗下公司开发的RNA生物反应器。我非常高兴看到这种投入。然而，我读到埃隆·马斯克本人并不打算接种疫苗，哦，和我一样。但我也知道，尔马斯对我们各国政府为控制疫情和保护公民而采取的许多措施持批判态度。他有一句话尤其触动了我：任何有风险的人都应该隔离，直到风暴过去；这与您刚刚提出的观察有关……

今晚再次提到，每个人总有一天都得死。是的，在疫情中，健康保护并不优先于其他一切；这一切……它始终关乎平衡。无论我们采取行动还是不采取行动，都会造成伤害。因此，我们必须取得平衡。作为卫生部长，我认为我们高度重视健康保护是完全正确的。就我个人而言，如果不这样做，我会非常艰难、困难重重。与此同时，要求作出不同的评判也是正当的。这类辩论是我们自由社会不可或缺的一部分。重要的是，我们在这些讨论中不要势不两立，而要相互倾听，并愿意至少有时假定，另一种方式……另一个人可能有道理，或者他们的论点可能成立。

沦为道德说教的辩论很少能反映现实的全部多样性，因此暗示埃隆·马斯克可能关心得太少，是非常不公平的。埃隆·马斯克通过他的私人基金会资助可再生能源、太空旅行、儿童健康、教育和数学、计算机科学、自然科学、技术以及安全人工智能领域的研究；以私人身份，他一直向慈善项目捐赠大笔资金，例如种植100万棵树的项目。审视埃隆·马斯克，意味着一再遇见一种看似永不满足的、对行动与探索的考验。此时，那些谈论我们的西方世界和社会创新能力据称正在衰退的众多文章，似乎就相隔了几个世界。在这样的情况下，埃隆·马斯克站在

聚光灯下，他是一整代勇敢企业家和大胆科学家的备用头领，这些人相信思想的力量，并相信尽管存在阻力和挫折，进步仍然是可能的。尽管我们人类目前正面临巨大挑战，这仍赋予我们勇气。我们生活在一个充满巨大机遇的时代，一个经济成功、对环境负责且社会平衡的世界是可能的。它可以通过创新与勇气实现，而不是通过个人节制或恐惧。与埃隆·马斯克这类富有创新精神和创造力的人有关的经历和相遇，一次又一次地证实了我根本上的乐观主义。我们确实有能力塑造自己的未来。埃隆·马斯克原本想稍微改变一下世界，结果却

起来彻底改变它，这教会我们，一切都掌握在我们自己手中，这取决于我们每一个人，尤其是现在，在这个往往艰难的时期，我们不能忽视摆在面前的未来，尽管它在许多领域都有令人担忧的灾难性方面，当前的疫情恰恰增强了塑造未来的意愿，它正以前所未有的速度引领我们走上一些适当且必要的道路，正如那句老话所说，危机带来机遇，在这场疫情中，我们每天都在一起学习更多东西，换句话说，是公开地学习，我们正在调整自己的策略，我们始终努力以有针对性且适度的方式行动，每天根据最广泛的知识重新开始，这种进步精神，这种开放态度，这种

学习意愿，是我们未来必须保持的东西。我确信，德国拥有大量这种驱动着您的远见力量，马斯克先生，我们只需要更经常地有勇气相信自己拥有它。在这方面，您是我们的杰出榜样。祝贺您获得2020年阿克塞尔·施普林格奖。我祝愿您未来取得尽可能大的成功，以及更多，保持健康，一切顺利。[掌声] 显然我们可以靠近一些，一切顺利，谢谢您，施潘先生。这里再次是你们的机长讲话，播报一些航班信息，舱外温度约为1600开尔文，所以我恳请各位在我们离开超空间时不要打开窗户。[外语] 欢迎来到火星轨道，我们将按预定的

时间抵达我们的最终目的地火星表面，温度将在0摄氏度至零下100摄氏度之间，所以第一条规则，不要惊慌。请原谅，我刚刚收到消息，现在、就在这里有一件特别递送，这相当不寻常，不过请让我检查一下。[外语] [音乐] [掌声] [音乐] [掌声] [音乐] [掌声] [音乐] [掌声] [音乐] 晚上好，晚上好，埃隆，大家晚上好。我是你们今晚的机长，能请您替我拿一下头盔吗？非常感谢。哇，感觉太舒服了，我以前从没感觉这么舒服过，谢谢。这是你的 Originals Basics 连体服，我从现在起会穿很多次，因为我从没感觉这么自由过，我可以呼吸，我脑袋里有氧气，而我以前也经历过那种情况，站在舞台上，这

有点像一道裂口，你知道，它确实让我显瘦，不过没关系，今晚对我来说没没没关系。我真的很高兴来到这里，也真的很感谢能见到您，因为出于不同原因，我也感谢您的工作和成就，因为您可能还记得，我们在影片里看到了，我拿着麦克风，我就是那个人，当您宣布要在柏林勃兰登堡这里建造Tesla时，是我的手拿着麦克风。所以多亏了您，我登上了德国每一档新闻节目，不是我，而是我的一部分登上了德国每一档“你”节目，这让我真的出了名。我的手现在是德国最著名的手之一，而我的手现在正拿着您的礼物。这个礼物，我们一直在想我们能，我们是说，能送您什么

作为礼物，这真的很难，你知道，真的很难。我们考虑过去勃兰登堡度一个水疗周末，不太好；乘直升机飞越柏林；一套精美的牛排刀，您可能已经有了。所以我们一直在想，什么东西对您来说会不错，您能猜到里面是什么吗？到台上来，我告诉您，来吧。不，不是蛋糕，也不是书。到台上来。正如我们听说的，您是一位有远见的人，也是一位商人，但您也，如果您不，不仅喜欢听音乐，还会做音乐。对，是一张唱片。好吧，您创作音乐，太棒了。有一首著名的歌，它没有进入排行榜，但真的很有名，它在SoundCloud上真的有排名，这首歌是《Don't Doubt Your Vibe》。对，您认出来了，对

不要挑战你的氛围，因为这是真的，因为这就是你。哦，这很好。它有太多可能性，真的能直接冲破天花板。对，对，嗯，只要用足够多的自动调音就能奏效。对，对，对。我们会的。您什么时候写的？什么时候创作的？其实，我有一天早上刚醒来，呃，就在唱这些歌词，呃，它们不是很复杂，嗯，然后我的女朋友Grimes用她的手机把它录了下来。对，她说这很棒，我们应该把它做成一首歌。对，然后，呃，我们给朋友Mike打了电话，呃，他是一位很棒的制作人，然后我们去了录音室，呃，去了那个木偶录音室，吉姆·汉森录音室。对，然后，呃，我们，我们制作了这首歌。对，然后，嗯，我创建了一个假的唱片厂牌，叫作Emoji Records，Emoji在

一分钟，是的，就像那样，嗯，然后，呃，在SoundCloud上，然后我把它上传到了SoundCloud，然后，呃，事情就是这样。完美，是的。应该在什么场合播放它？我想，如果你在怀疑自己的氛围，是的，你知道，或者任何时候。你曾怀疑过自己的氛围吗？是的，真的，是什么时候？是的，嗯，12月，呃，2日，呃，我不知道，92年。

我们能期待更多吗？我们能期待不要更多吗？这非常有前景，我是说。嗯，我确实觉得，翻唱Aqua的《Barbie Girl》会挺有趣的，你知道那首歌，《Barbie Girl》，《Barbie Girl》。对，Viagra，我是芭比女孩，在芭比世界里，嗯，塑料，这太棒了，你知道，它到处让我崩溃。所以你知道歌词。对，我知道歌词，对吧。不，不，嗯，不过，不过我觉得翻唱《Barbie Girl》会很有趣，但改成《Cyber Girl》，我是一个赛博女孩。对，在一个赛博世界里。完美。对，好吧，你，你必须投资于你，这太棒了。未来没有塑料，你知道，诸如此类的。对，我，我对此表示怀疑。不过现在请坐稳，我们有幸请到了世界上最著名的DJ之一。酷。他就在这里，而且他重新混音了您的歌曲

对，而且我们把他请到了这里，那么今晚见到它也算公平。好的，Ben，你能上台吗？你好。他，他，嗯，他做了这个原版，它就在这里面。Sven，对。用这些素材创作感觉怎么样？这些素材怎么样？你是怎么，对，用这个标题的，我和我的一个朋友尽力把它做到了最好，我希望您喜欢。不过这不只是那个，那是，它是整个盒子。对。很有意思，是谁设计的？谁设计的？我儿子。好吧。我儿子画了封面，他，他叫Tegan，10岁。顺便说一句，他非常喜欢您的工作。嗯，这绝对是原作。您会在自己的DJ演出里什么时候播放它？您会播放它吗？它比较适合开场，还是更偏浩室，我自己。所以我们有，它会放在哪里？我们有独一无二的印刷黑胶唱片，以及

我选择您会议室里的唱机，放在那里的建筑工地上，所以实际上如此重要的科技音符曲目，来自过去30年，对吧，包含图案，还有我的朋友们。对，Kraftwerk很棒。那是什么音乐？所以那是，这是独一无二的，这太棒了。哇，只有1份，非常用心，谢谢你，这是给您的，请享用。我希望您有唱机。我有。里面有一个二维码。好吧，非常感谢。谢谢，谢谢，谢谢。今晚。好的。很荣幸有您到场。对，这真的，呃，谢谢你们做这些，真的很有趣，而且，哇，制作水准很高。嗯，这让我感觉像是在乘坐某种很酷的迪士尼游乐设施。嗯，所以，嗯，不过我确实想说，呃，要向Tesla和SpaceX、Neuralink、Boring

Company的杰出员工致意。嗯，真的，我代表你们接受这个奖，感谢你们所做的一切伟大工作。所以，嗯，非常、非常感激。嗯，但我真的要非常郑重地向这些公司里让这一切成为现实的人们致意。非常感谢。谢谢。[掌声] 因为女士们先生们，我们即将着陆，请再次系好安全带。[音乐] 外语。[音乐] 正在下降。[音乐] 欢迎火星，我们刚刚着陆，结束了这段，呃，是的，令人疲惫、兴奋、惊讶而美妙的旅程。嗯，看起来很棒，不是吗？是的。嗯，你们可以跟随我们的协助，或者Daphne先生，他，他是这里最高的那个人，只要跟着他走，呃，我们为各位准备了一点茶点，而且你们甚至不必在咸味和甜味之间，或者火腿或，或奶酪之间作出选择，你们

今晚可以两种都拿，这实在太棒了。祝各位度过一个愉快的夜晚，好好享受，晚安，谢谢。[音乐] [掌声] [音乐] 谢谢。[音乐] 谢谢。[音乐] 谢谢。[音乐] [掌声] [音乐] 外语。[音乐]

foreign this is your captain speaking welcome aboard our vessel to Mars boarding is completed as all systems are set and we're sure that we don't take the coronavirus to outer space for your cooperation by the way we are ready to launch first rule don't panic cabin crew prepare for takeoff [Music] thank you [Music] 20 seconds till left off 15 seconds [Music] foreign this is your captain with an update from the cockpit we arrived in Earth's orbit safe and sound let me please especially welcome one very special passenger an extraordinary Visionary a multi-talented engineer a super smart entrepreneur and not at least the man who made this Mission to Mars possible please give a very warm welcome to Mr Elon Musk please take a look at our wonderful Planet isn't

it gorgeous as curious as I am to see Mars I'm really looking forward to come back to our old Homestead [Music] South Africa in the 70s a boy from Pretoria facing childhood problems he reads 10 hours a day Star Wars and science fiction but this one's got talent for machines and for money at the age of 12 he programmed his first computer game on the good old Commodore young Elon sold blastar for five hundred dollars develop stuff Let It Grow sell it soon this is how we made his fortune and his opportunity to go even further this is the way one sentence he never wanted to hear you're in the Army now so he got himself a passport moved to Canada leaving the South African apartheid regime behind he was 16 years old after some time in Kinston he left Canada

went to Pennsylvania got his Bachelor and then moved south ah Stanford University Palo Alto where all the Silicon dreams were about to come true Elon was one of those who founded the legend of the valley two thousand dollars a car and a computer and nothing more he and his brother Kimball founded zip2 a company that provided and licensed online city guide software to newspapers four years later he sold it to Compaq for 307 million dollars quite a story but just the start a typical story of those times develop and invest find allies merge disrupt rise of PayPal his first vision of making things easier for people using the digitization Elon Musk helped to change the financial industry forever PayPal was sold for 1.

5 billion dollars to eBay Elon held 11.

7 percent of the shares a big winner in the big game money that he uses to make the world a better place he attacks on the world's best settled Market the automotive industry we created Tesla to make a difference in the world Tesla disruption at its best not everything worked out perfect well but his long breath proved him right he is pushing all his competitors forward he is expanding Elites technology leads infrastructure and Logistics and if necessary he works in sleeps at the factory foreign ER [Music] soon very soon we've decided to put the Tesla gigafactory Europe uh in the Berlin area yeah and Tesla is just on The Cutting Edge of an idea autonomous driving is bored so for us being a little startup we had to start off with a car that was in in low

production and necessarily expensive their idea of an electric car is something that doesn't look good isn't fast it doesn't have high performance we wanted to break them all of all of that that's what we sought to achieve big time for important things saving time for stuff that is fun well it is fun to drive a Tesla but on an endless Motorway even riding gets tiring it's human we're bored very soon let the car drive and get some food for the brain while it does the work and last but not least fuel it with energy that is not harmful to the planet Elon Embraces his responsibility but this is never enough much more is needed Elon can't stop thinking about the future of making things work better more efficient a Visionary a man who never gives up although

there would have been a few moments when giving up would have been a more than plausible option foreign SpaceX is not only a business it's Hobby it's a passion Elon is CEO and its first spaceship designer it is all rocket science really many laughed at him NASA with its billions the Russians with their ruthless and dead serious Ambitions the whole call of SpaceX was the first space exploration technology and that's uh helping make Humanity a space Bank civilization transported Americans to the ISS UE private economy is more effective and sustainable than State economy crew dragon is a gentle slap in the face for over-the-top institutional rocketeers the Russians took it personal Elon Musk must not be quoted by them too successful Russia some things never

change can one man change the world yeah sure Elon Musk did it and he doesn't stop there and I think that's one of the things that you know makes people excited about the future and we want the things that are in science fiction novels and movies not to be science fiction forever we want to be real one day what if one could help handicapped people by connecting the body with machines to reconnect neural disorders a presto neuralink what if we could get rid of traffic on our city streets dig a deep long tunnel beneath them and shoot the cars from one side of the town to the other hey Presto the boring company the name by the way is one of the best puns ever and stop if we can do that with cars why shouldn't we do it with goods and people full speed 600

kilometers in 35 minutes just do it hey Presto hyperloop but all that's Earthbound reach for the stars and planets we're already on our way to Mars [Music] this is your captain speaking well rather gasping what a trip that was and it's not over yet let's hear it from the man himself I'd kindly ask you now Elon to come on stage and join actually Springer CEO Matthias Dafna for a little chat [Applause] [Music] [Applause] well that was fun yeah I'm glad that you enjoyed it yeah it's like a ride I mean I think you could charge money for this this is great I mean yeah it's really makes a difference to have this two screens and the angle change it's like that felt great like Disney right Elon apart from this special trip to Mars this evening when do you think

realistically human beings will land on Mars for the first time um I think it I feel fairly confident about six years from now so every the Mars uh Earth Mod synchronization occurs roughly every 26 months so we had one this year this summer and so that means in roughly like about two years there'll be another one um and then two years after that so I think I'd say if you say six years from now I think highly confident uh if we get lucky maybe four years and then we want to try to send a an uh uncrewed vehicle there in two years when will your first trip to orbit who will take place I don't know possibly in two or three years I mean I'm mostly concerned with developing the technology that can enable a lot of people to go to Mars and make life multi-planetary

have a base on the moon a city on Mars and I think it's important that we strive to have a self-sustaining City on Mars as soon as possible I mean I'm optimistic about the future on Earth but it's important to have life insurance for Life as a whole is it going to be a business kind of tourism in in orbit or is it more a kind of plan B if things owners do not develop as well it's not exactly a plan B uh it's it's more that I think I think there's two two aspects to this uh one is that we want to have a future that is inspiring and exciting and what are the things that you find inspiring and exciting about the future I think one future where we are a space-bearing civilization and out there Among the Stars I think that's every kid gets excited about that

you don't even need to teach them they just get it it's like instinctive and so it's very important for us to have reasons to like reasons to be excited about life like when you wake up in the morning it can't just be about problems okay I know everyone in this room deals with a lot of tough problems but you know it's got to be more than that so you know I think a future where you can say hey even if it's not you there's going to be people out there that can we can have a base on the moon we're going to have a you know a city on Mars maybe go further the moons of Jupiter and everything I think that's a very exciting future and and then and I think most people do um and you seriously want to be buried on Mars just not an impact [Laughter] uh yeah I mean

if you're gonna listen we're all gonna die someday um so if you're gonna die someday I'm like okay do you want to be buried on a monster with I'm like Mars sounds cool born on Earth Dion was that's uh you know if you got the choice um two years ago I had a conversation with Jake Ma and we spoke about Jeff Bezos plans with regards to uh orbit and he said well let's uh Jeff Bezos take care uh for the orbit I take care for the Earth you seem to take care for both yeah basically Tesla is about trying to make sure things are good for the future on Earth and then SpaceX is about a good future beyond Earth basically um and so obviously we have to have sustainable energy uh both consumption and production of energy uh so like hazardous solar panels and batteries

I think that's one of the key uh ways to have sustainable energy generation and also the batteries are useful for wind power so and then elect you then you need to Consumer via consumed electricity so electric vehicles um and um you know I think look at these things like say okay if you look back from the future and say what's the fundamental good of uh Tesla I would say it's probably should be assessed as by how many by how many years did Tesla accelerate the Advent of sustainable energy like that's like I would measure the goodness of Tesla in that in that way and then for SpaceX it's like okay to what degree did we improve the probability of humanity being a space bearing civilization I remember very well the year 2014 when we were hosting the gold

steering wheel here at Oxford and you got the uh award for Lifetime Achievement and I was sitting in the first row with the then very successful and famous CEO of a very big German car company and I asked him while you were on stage isn't this guy dangerous for you I mean this looks really serious he said oh no don't worry first of all the whole idea of electric driving is never going to be a mass Market sure second These Guys these guys in Silicon Valley they have no clue about engineering about building really beautiful and great cars so we don't have to worry by then Tesla's market cap was 23 billion today it's 536 billion US Dollars the market Capital VW then was 86 and to today at 77 and you could you you are with Tesla two and a half times bigger

than BMW VW and Daimler I even said it's ever too high I mean what am I supposed to do you like have you ever considered that stock is too high a long time like when it was like it 100 800 pre-split and then listen to me but you know I'll tell you in the SEC complained again I mean like you know is it a serious option to buy one of the incumbents one of the big car companies for you well I I think we're definitely not going to launch a hostile takeover so I suppose if there was a friendly one if somebody said hey we think it would be a good idea to merge with Tesla we certainly have that conversation um but you know we don't want to you know be a hostile hostile takeover sort of situation did you feel a lot of complacency uh these days that the incumbents

length let you feel that you are I mean the kind of hopeless disrupter but they know how to do it or where they're very polite and nice with you do you mean back then or not then oh no no today everybody it's super nice I would not say there was a run now yeah we're difficult to characterize their responses super nice um they use a lot of adjectives um I don't think that any of them were positive so we try we really tried hard to convince a lot of companies uh honestly I was in so many panels uh but um they generally were yeah generally the sediment that was expressed that you mentioned earlier that was pretty much Universal especially uh if back in say 2008 or 2007 like when we first unveiled the roads from 2007 um yeah I mean it was just basically they

just said well you're basically a bunch of fools well I mean generally they say like well who starting a car company is crazy you're going to lose all your money I was like I think I probably will lose all my money I agree I it wasn't like I thought it would be successful I thought we had maybe a 10 chance of success so then people would say you're it's gonna fail and you're going to lose lose everything it's like yeah probably true yeah what else is new a couple of years ago we we we saw each other in America and the guy asks you on a panel uh when uh autonomous driving will be approved and you said I do not care so much when it's going to be approved I care more when uh human beings in cars will be forbidden and then the guy said well that's really

unrealistic it's never going to happen in uh in cars people want to do something actively and then you said well 100 years ago nobody could imagine uh uh elevator without a lift boy today nobody could imagine a lift with a lift boy yeah so when is autonomous driving really really going to happen and when when are you able to do it and when is it going to be approved okay just between us yeah it's a very discreet Circle here yeah um so well first of all I'm not I'm not against people driving to be clear uh so I think people will drive cars basically as far into the future as I can imagine it's just that it's going to be increasingly unusual to to drive your own car and while it's fun to drive a you know a well handling car on a Winding Road in beautiful

terrain of course that's that's fun um but it's not fun to drive a car in a terrible gridlock traffic like you know going through extreme traffic that's no fun driving a car so I think people are unlikely to most of the time want to commute or with it with their uh and drive themselves um and you know people are typically spending hour and a half a day maybe two hours uh on average driving um especially say like California or something like that it's very common um and some people will actually commute like three hours a day sometimes it's pretty crazy so uh so I so I think I think uh um if you say fast forward to like 10 years from now I think 10 years from now almost all cars will be will have a full autonomy capability uh that all new costs produced

so there's there's about two billion cars and trucks in the in the existing Fleet um and the new vehicle production is about five percent of the fleet size so about 100 million so even the point which all cars are autonomous they'll still take you know 20 years to replace all the cars assuming that the number of cars and trucks trucks in the fleet stays constant um but like say 10 years from now I would say vast majority of cars electric like maybe 70 80 percent or more uh and uh almost all cause autonomous electric autonomy is absolutely the future no question and just a question of when um but then like I said as soon as people think that that means the global Fleet gets replaced instantly and it's like nope you have to go 20 years beyond that point

before 20 years from the point at which all cars are new cars are electric then the fleet will be replaced um it was just an important it's not like some people are used to like mobile phones and that kind of thing is like two year or three year replacement rate but cars are much uh more expensive asset to longer life uh anyway to actually answer your question um I'm I'm extremely confident uh of achieving full autonomy uh and releasing it to the Tesla customer base uh next year now the there's a uncertain period of time for when regulatory approval will be will take how long will it take but I think if you are able to accumulate uh billions of kilometers of autonomous driving then it's difficult to argue and look at the accident rate uh when the car

is autonomous versus non-autonomous and in fact our our statistics already show a massive difference when the car is on autopilot or not on autopilot if the safety is much greater even with the current autopilot software and we are discussing level 5 autonomy so really full autonomy will Euro black behind or will it be approved here at the same time like in America or China it's hard to say uh exactly when it will be approved I I mean just to and our customers already know this but the the the the EU Regulators are the most conservative um and uh I don't know if people want that to be the case or not our customers are sort of unhappy about it but um yeah they only meet every six months maybe meet more often I don't know um so yeah but I think at least

some jurisdictions will allow full self-driving next year okay exactly a year ago you were announcing In This Very building that you're planning to build a new site near Berlin yeah and a couple of months later and Junior started you want to finish it by July next year we did a little tour this morning it's impressive how advanced it is and it's almost unbelievable Germany and Piccadilly particularly Berlin is not world famous for finishing construction sites in time and in budget yeah so you've created a kind of entire Berlin airport project why Berlin why did you go to Germany and to Berlin to get that big project done sure um well first of all I'm actually a big fan of Germany I love Germany it's great I would you know um I have a lot of friends um

uh German friends and I think Berlin is a very fun city um and uh I think it's there's there's also it's from a location standpoint uh people like say young people can live in apartments at a reasonable price in the city of Berlin uh but if somebody's got a family they can still have an affordable house so it's a good location offering um you know good living for people of all ages and incomes and and um I believe it's not that poor but but it's definitely sexy could you imagine so we're gonna have like uh when we open the uh you're all invited by the way uh when we have the opening for gigabolin we're gonna have uh just a big party um you know we're gonna have like start off from the day have more sort of Family Music uh and uh and then gradually get

more hardcore and then go you know midnight techno Till Dawn dude do you plan to spend more time in Berlin yourself you want to partly live here in fact I yes I'll be spending a lot of time here where do you sleep tonight in the in the tonight's in the factory in the factory well technically in a conference room in the factory but yeah you sleep in a conference room in the not finished Factory tonight yeah it gives me a good feel for what's going on alone or yeah I assume so it's an invitation um yeah okay Elon you have so many projects it's not only Tesla or SpaceX it's neuraling it's the boring company so many things and when we discussed last time I asked you what is the most important project or the most important topic for you to deal with in the

foreseeable future and you said that is truly the role that AI is going to play in our society could you explain why and why that is a big opportunity but also seems to worry you uh yeah I think well I mean humans have been the smallest creature on Earth for a long time and that is going to change with what's typically called artificial general intelligence uh so this is say an AI that is uh smarter than a human in every way it could even simulate a human so you know this is something we should be concerned about I think there should be a government oversight of AI developments especially super Advanced AI it's just this is anything that is a potential uh danger to the public we generally agree that this should have uh government oversight to ensure that

the the public safety is taken care of because you feel that one day the mankind could serve the machines and not the other way around honestly when I see people on their phones that I think we already serve with the machine yeah it's like everyone's uh answering the questions you know every time you do a search or add information you're sort of building this the the digital group mind um but yeah uh the Advent of artificial general intelligence is called The Singularity for a reason because just like a black hole which is a single Singularity it's difficult to predict what will happen um so it's not as though the Advent of AGI is necessarily bad but it's bad is one of the possible outcomes and when is singularity in the in the definition of Ray quotes

why are going to happen um well I think you're saying he he's predicting 2025.

I think that's uh reasonably accurate and how can it be avoided that is then uh more a threat for Humanity than an opportunity is it a question of governance so that there is not too much power in one or in few hands or how would you how would you make sure that it goes into the right direction I think we should have a a government oversight just like we do we have uh government oversight and regulation of cars and aircraft and uh food and pharmaceuticals these are all uh you know there's a there are Regulators that oversee these developments to ensure Public Safety um and I think digital super intelligence would also be potentially a public safety risk and so it should be it's I think it's very important to for Regulators to keep an eye on that who should

own the data data by then I think everyone should own their own data like individuals here on their data um and it certainly shouldn't be tricked by some terms and conditions of a website and suddenly you don't own your data that's crazy uh who reads those terms and conditions anyway so uh but I think it's just you know like we wouldn't let people develop a nuclear bomb in the backyard just for the hell of it you know that that seems crazy so digital super intelligence I think has the potential to be more dangerous than a nuclear bomb so yeah we should just somebody should be keeping an eye so we can't have the inmates running the Asylum here which is a global issue because if we do well but China has other rules and a different regulatory framework that

is another uh yeah I don't I don't think college yeah I generally like that this is one of the rebuttals I get from those developing Ai and Tesla is also developing a form of AI with self-driving but it's a very narrow form of AI just like um like the car is not going to wake up Sunday one day and take over the world um so so it's uh but the rebuttal I get is like well you know China is going to have unfettered uh AI development and so if we have regulations and it slows us down then China will have it and I'm like look I from my conversations with government officials in China they are they they're quite concerned about AI as well and they uh the fact that they're probably more likely to have a good oversight than I think other countries what is the

biggest uh challenge uh ahead of us in general not only with regard to AI what is the biggest problem that needs to be solved what's the biggest threat to Humanity's future [Music] well AI is certainly one of the biggest risks it could be the biggest risk um I think we need to watch out about population collapse this is a somewhat counter-intuitive to most people they think that well there's so many humans maybe too many humans but that's just because they live in a city yeah if you're an aircraft and you look down they say if you dropped a a cannibal how often would you hit a person basically never in fact the stuff falling in from space all the time natural meteorites old rocket stages all the time but nobody worries about it because the the actual

in fact um there's a good a cool website called wait but why and Scott Tim Urban like he actually just did the math and and uh all humans on Earth uh could fit in the city of New York on one floor don't even need the upper floors so that's actually the cross-section of of humans as seen from Earth is extremely tiny basically vanishingly small almost nothing um so we need to watch out about population collapse low growth rates I think is a big risk and it's also not exactly top secret you can go look at the Wikipedia you know growth rate so and and this this is actually this this is this is definitely the civilization ends with the with a whimper not a bang uh because it would be a sad ending um where the the average age becomes very high and really the

youth are effectively uh de facto enslaved to take care of the old people this is not a good way to go and do you have any new projects dealing with these topics that you've just addressed um well I'm trying to set a good example on the kid front six kids yes for now how much time do you spend with them I I spent about as much time as they want to spend with me yeah I mean they're not well one's just a baby and now there's a 14 and 16 and teenagers um don't usually want to hang out with their parents that much you know we just had Thanksgiving weekend so all the kids were over um so you know if they want to spend more time with me I said like oh you should I actually asked them are sure we don't want to hang out more like no so I think it's probably the

right amount then since they that's about the they don't want to hang out more so I think we really should take this seriously the population collapse artificial intelligence obviously sustainable energy is important uh the faster we transition to sustainable energy the less of a gamble we're taking with climate and um I think there's going to be a lot of breakthroughs on the medical front particularly around synthetic mRNA you can basically do anything with the synthetic RNA DNA it's really it's like a computer program so I mean I think with enough with with uh with effort that's not too crazy you could probably stop aging reverse it if you weren't um these are you can basically join you can turn someone into a free and Butterfly if you want with the

right DNA sequence so I mean caterpillars do it so yeah but your project neuralink is in a way empowering human intelligence versus artificial intelligence that's the purpose of it is that correct yeah so neuralink the uh in a short to medium term neuralink is really just going to help cure uh brain injuries brain and spine injuries so it's like if somebody is a in fact our first uh implanted devices in humans will be for uh quadriplegics tetraplegics allowing them to control a computer or a phone just using they might so like you can imagine like if Stephen Hawking could just talk uh and at a normal speed or even faster than normal speed looking back for the last thousands of years what is the most important invention of mankind so far in the past Thousand

Years um I I guess it's millions of millions um well I think language I would be able to talk and express Concepts and um this this is a probably the biggest invention of humanities language it's an answer that we like very much in the publishing yeah absolutely you know writing is yeah exactly just incredible right writing really made a big difference that guy Gutenberg you really know what he's doing you have one thing in common with Nicolas Tesla that's a photographic memory is that only a gift or sometimes a burden because you memorize too much I have a photographic memory in some respects um for technical stuff I have a very good memory so for a human yeah you know computers are much better at memory computer is a really good memory why is music

so important for you techno music in particular well it's pretty fun I think it's a you know you want to I don't know feel maximum human you know and uh so I think when people have like sort of a Rave and good music it can be like hey maximum human you know you want to really feel uh you know it's like like what really gets you to feel you know and I think that uh you know having fun with friends and you know just crazy crazy dancing is fun perhaps you know how techno music is the secret reason why you are building big projects in Berlin yeah honestly that's a it's a significant factor okay Elon last question you you celebrated your 30th birthday with a masked ball in Venice for your 40th birthday I was told you had a fight with a samurai sword fighter

what is your plan for your 15th birthday next year um well so my 40th birthday was the was in Venice uh it was it was technically a post-apocalyptic masked wall uh after the apocalypse how much clothing do you really have you know it's not going to be a little ragged a little burnt you know um so um no plans for the 50th yeah the half century party um I'll have to think of something um usually go with some kind of crazy theme the the the the party where I ended up to wrestling with the world champion tumor wrestler which by the way also caused me to boast a disc in my neck so yeah five minutes of Glory for five years of pain um that was that really hurt um so that party was um Victorian Japanese steampunk so that was cool uh I have to think of something

for the half century report you have a little time to think being on Earth for a half century that's okay I'm still alive wow cool one very last question when I asked you what is the meaning of life during a dinner 42 you said after a while after a while well probably this wonderful French cheese could you please explain oh well I was just saying that you know you want to take a moment to appreciate things in life and the sensations um food's incredible uh and uh like there's just so many good things that you can experience some of them cost nothing really um you know have a walk in nature or just a nice meal and it's like wow it was pretty great you know and uh we should take a moment to appreciate these These Little Things the big things um the things

that move your heart I think that's probably the meaning of life was close definitions as I can think thank you very much Elon all right this is your captain speaking again thank you Elon and thank you Matthias it's a pleasure having you on board and learning so much about our future before I come back with some information about our flights I'm now honored to welcome secretary Yen span and ask him on stage and share his thoughts about Elon musk's achievements and responsibilities the vessel's floor is yours Mr secretary [Applause] thank you so a wonderful evening to all of you in the evening between the struggles on earth and the vision towards Mars and regarding Earth we are meeting here today in a very special time we are experiencing the worst pandemics

since the Spanish Flu for roughly 10 months now governments but Above All citizens worldwide have been combating the virus and its consequences people are experiencing a great deal of suffering hardship and sacrifice yet today at the beginning of December we also have a reason for optimism we can be very optimistic that we will have an effective vaccine against the new virus faster than ever before in human history with a vaccine we can finally hope to have a tool that will help us beat the virus it is true that some people have misgivings about vaccination to the point of rejecting it at all costs this is an attitude I find very difficult to understand it was only vaccination that first made it possible for humankind to liberate itself from many of the

Fatal diseases that had plagued our ancestors for centuries plagues that had led to fear and Superstition and then obstacle to progress vaccination is progress and today that word progress is for many synonymous with one name that of Elon Musk Mr mask I'm pleased to have the honor of paying tribute to you in these very special times you are without doubt a visionary the name mask stands for ideas that were often far ahead of their time paying online with PayPal Electro mobility and sustainable energy with Tesla and not seldom does the name mask also represent ideas that at first glance might seem a little crazy the HIPAA Loop project is one of those the vision that persons and goods can be accelerated in the double tube to speeds of up to 1 200 kilometers

per hours this also includes connecting the human brain to a computer the subject of neuro links just discussed the rulings research since 2016 and of course private space travel with SpaceX is also an integral part of the mission thanks to Elon Musk seemingly crazy ideas become reality Elon Musk has realized the most powerful thing we as human beings possess is our ideas Tesla's ability to rise to become the world's most valuable car manufacturer was not primarily the result of itself's figures Tesla's worse is a reflection of an idea a vision an idea that allows many people to have faith in progress in a better future it is supported of course by business expertise Elon Musk is building his newest gigafactory in brunberg on Mark land many Germans associate

bronberg with the poet teodor Fontana who once walked the sense of the mark Fontana wrote between arrogance and humility lies a third trait that is part of life and that simply put is courage should you not yet know Fontana by the way for your Douglas Adam non-digital bookshelf I hope there is one Fontana should you not yet know him Mr mask I think that fits you quite well because courage you most certainly have as at the same time your choice of Germany as the location for your factory is hardly you only a question of Courage but just as much the result of keen calculation Germany is a country of automobile automobile Pioneers Carl and better Benz Rudolph diesel Gottlieb Daimler very Nan Porsche the list of achievements by Germans are made in Germany

is long Mr mask you know that Germany still possesses great Innovative strange today many well-trained creative people and a solid infrastructure great conditions for courageous entrepreneurship for tomorrow's innovators and Pioneers in the meantime you probably also recognize the word birkati in German indeed indeed constructing a factory from scratch in only a few months that is a new experience even for our country at least an experience we seem to have forgotten we need a bit more of the mass courage on our side to reduce bureaucratic obstacles and thereby promote innovation because also it is true that Innovation needs a reliable framework it also needs freedom to flourish in the 70 years since the creation of the Federal Republic of Germany we have

often succeeded in Striking this balance Germany is an economically strong country Cosmopolitan and free an anchor of stability and enmity in Europe it is something we can be proud of today however at the start of the 20s of the 21st century there are a number of questions we also ask ourselves do we the 20s what do we want the 20s to look like how can we find the right answers and complicated times what Legacy do we want to leave to our children how can we maintain the German success model sustain and expand our prosperity as well as the freedom and security associated with it in times where it is under threats from many sites so we need a strong state that encourage economic activity because German firms can't some because German firms suffered some

clear disadvantages when competing with monopolies from the U.

S and with a state economy like China's in return our state should invest massively in education infrastructure and research and should launch support programs not for individual companies but for entire branches of the economy in the 20s we want to remain expert Champion a master of innovation push forward digitalization promote research and strenging entrepreneurial culture only progress will ensure that the next generation will have it even better it's all about making space for ideas to flourish from all that we've heard Ellen musk knows this and tries to implement it in his businesses being a Visionary does not necessarily mean always being right nor does it mean being free of contradiction it was only recently that Elon Musk and I got to meet each

other personally and we're also able to talk about the pandemic situation Tesla is through the subsidiary groom and automated automation a partner of the German Dutch biotech company curac which is doing research on the coronavirus vaccine Quebec is using RNA bioreactors developed by Elon Musk companies I'm very pleased to see this commitment however I have read that Elon Musk himself does not intend to get vaccinated oh like me but still I also know that lmas takes a critical view of many of the measures that we as governments are taking to control the pandemic and to protect our citizens one of his statements struck me especially that anyone who is at risk should be in quarantine until the storm passes in connection with the observation you just met

again tonight that everyone has to die sometime yes Health protection does not take precedence over all else in the pandemic it all it is always about balance no matter how we Act or do not act harm will occur we must therefore strike a balance as minister of Health I think it is only right for us to weight the Health's protection very highly I for one would have great difficult difficulty doing otherwise at the same time it is legitimate to demand a different rating such debates are an indispensable part of our free societies and it is important that we are not implacable in these discussions but we listen to each other and are willing to assume at least sometimes that the other way the other one might have a point or that their arguments could be valid

debates that deteriorate into moralizing seldom reflect reality in all its diversity so it would be highly unfair to imply that Elon Musk might care too little through his private Foundation Elon Musk funds Research into renewable energy space travel child health education and Mathematics computer science natural science technology as well as safe AI in its private capacity he is consistently donating large sums of money to charity projects such as for planting 1 million trees looking at Elon Musk means repeatedly encountering a seemingly insatiable test for action and Discovery the many articles about the supposedly declining Innovative power of our Western World and societies then just seems to be Worlds Away in such instances Elon Musk stands in the

Limelight he is the spare head of an entire generation of courageous entrepreneurs and bold scientists people who believe in the power of ideas and that progress is possible in spite of resistance and setbacks this gives us courage despite the great challenges that we as humans are currently facing we are living in a time of great opportunity and an economically successful environmentally responsible and socially balanced world is possible it is possible through Innovation and courage not through individual austerity or through fear experiences and encounters with Innovative and creative people such as Elon Musk we confirm my basic optimism time after time we do have the power to shape our future Elon Musk wanted to change the world a little and ended

up revolutionizing it this teaches us that everything in our is in our own hands it is up to each and every one of us above all now in this often difficult time we may not lose sight of the future ahead of us with all of its alarming disastrous aspects in many areas the current pandemic strengthens precisely the willingness to shape the future it is leading us faster than ever down some appropriate and necessary path as the old saying goes crisis presents opportunity in this pandemic we are learning more on a daily base together in other words in public we are adapting our strategies we are consistently trying to act in a targeted and proportionate way starting afresh every day based on the largest knowledge this Spirit of progress this openness this

willingness to learn is something we must sustain in the future I'm convinced that Germany has a great deal of this Visionary power that drives you Mr Musk we simply need to more often have the courage to believe in it ourselves in this respect you are a great example to us congratulations on the 2020 Axel Springer award I wish you the greatest possible success for the future and even more stay healthy all the best [Applause] obviously we can get closer all the best thank you Mr span this is again your captain speaking some information about the flight outside temperature is about 1600 Kelvin so I kindly ask you not to open the windows as we leave hyperspace foreign Welcome To Mars orbit we will reach our final destination Mars surface in the scheduled

time the temperature will be between zero degrees Celsius and minus 100 degrees Celsius so first rule don't panic please excuse me I just got the information that we have a special delivery right now right here this is rather unusual but please let me check foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] good evening good evening Elon good evening everybody I'm your captain tonight would you please hold my helmet thank you very much WoW it feels so comfortable I never felt that comfortable before thank you it's your Originals Basics overall and I will wear it many times from now on because I never felt so free I can breathe I have oxygen in my head and I've experienced that before standing on the stage it's

a bit of a tear you know it does make me slim but it's it's okay it's it's it's okay for me tonight I'm really happy to be here and I'm really thankful to meet you because I'm also thankful for your work and achievement for different reasons because as you might remember we've seen it in the movie I held the microphone I was the one it was my hand holding the microphone when you announced that you're gonna build Tesla here in Berlin Brandenburg and so thanks to you I made it in every German news show not me but parts of me made it into every German you show which made me really famous my hands are now one of the most famous hands we have in Germany and my hands are holding your present now the present we were thinking about what can we I mean what can

we give you as a present it's really difficult you know it's really difficult we were thinking about a spa weekend in Brandenburg not too good a helicopter flight over Berlin a fancy set of steak knives you might have it already so we were thinking about what could be nice for you and can you guess what's inside come on stage I tell you come on no it's no cake and it's no book come on stage and as we heard you are a visionaire and you're a businessman but you are also if you don't not only like to listen to music but you also do music yeah it's a record okay you compose music great there is one famous song it didn't make it to the charts but it's really famous it's really ranked on Soundcloud but the song is don't doubt your Vibe yes you recognize yeah

don't dare your Vibe because it's true because it's you oh that's good it has so many possibilities to really go right through the ceiling yeah yeah um if you do enough auto-tune it works yeah yeah yeah we will when did you write it when did you compose it well actually I just woke up one morning and uh I was singing the lyrics uh they're not very complicated um and uh and then my girlfriend Grimes recorded it on her phone yeah and she said this is great we should make a song out of this yeah and so then uh we called our friend Mike uh who is a great producer and and we went to the studio uh to the the Muppet studio Jim Henson Studio yeah and uh we we made the song yeah and then um I created a fake record label label called Emoji records Emoji within

a minute yeah like that um and uh on Soundcloud and then I uploaded it to SoundCloud and uh that's how it went perfect yeah on which occasion should it be played I guess if you're doubting your Vibe yeah you know or anytime did you ever doubt your vibe yeah really what was it yeah um December uh second uh I don't know 92.

can we expect more can we expect not more it's very promising I mean well I do think that it would be kind of fun to do a cover of uh Barbie Girl by Aqua you know that song Barbie girl Barbie girl yeah Viagra I'm a Barbie girl in a Barbie world um plastic it's fantastic you know it breaks me everywhere so you know the lyrics yeah I know the lyrics right no no um but but I think it would be fun to do a cover of Barbie girl but cyber girl I'm a cyber girl yeah in a cyber world perfect yeah okay you you have to invest in you it's fantastic in the future there's no plastic you know that kind of thing yeah I I doubt that so but now hold on to your seat we have the honor to have one of the most famous DJs in the world cool he's here and he remixed your song

right and we have him here so then fair to see it tonight all right Ben could you come up on stage hello he he um he did this original it's inside here Sven yes how was it to work with the material how was the material how did you yeah with this title and I made out of the best with a friend of mine and I hope you like it and but it's not just about that that's it's the it's the whole box yeah what is quite interesting who designed it who designed it my son okay my son draw the cover and his his name is Tegan is 10 years old he is by the way big fan of your work well it's an absolute original when would you play it on your DJ set would you play it it's rather beginning or more house myself so we have where would it be we have unique printed vinyls and

I choose turntables in your conference room on there construction site so I actually so essential Tech note tracks from the last 30 years right Graphics included and friends of mine yeah craft work is great what's that music so is that this is unique and that's great wow only one very thoughtful thank you for you and enjoy I hope you have a turntable and I do there is a QR code inside okay thank you very much thank you thank you thank you tonight all right it's a pleasure having you yeah it's it's really uh thank you for doing this it's really fun and wow great production value um this is I feel like I'm on like a cool Disney ride or something um so um but I I do want to just say to uh acknowledge the great people at Tesla and SpaceX neurolink boring

company um really I accept this award uh on on your behalf for all the great things that that you've done so um super super appreciated um but I really want to acknowledge very strongly the people at the companies who made it happen thank you very much thank you [Applause] because ladies and gentlemen we're about to land please fasten your seatbelts again [Music] foreign [Music] going down [Music] welcome Mars we just landed after this uh yeah exhausting and exciting and surprising and wonderful Journey um looks great doesn't it yes um you can follow our Assistance or Mr Daphne he's he's the tallest guy here just walk after him and uh we have a little refreshment for you and you don't even have to choose between salty and sweet or ham or or cheese you

can take both tonight which is just great just have a nice evening and enjoy good night thank you [Music] [Applause] [Music] thank you [Music] thank you [Music] thank you [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign [Music]