Amazon founder Jeff Bezos made an unusual reveal at Italy’s Tech Week in Turin on Friday, and used the opportunity to predict that millions of people will live in space “in the coming decades.”
Speaking to John Elkan, the teacher of the Italian Agneli dynasty, Bezos, who founded the Rocket Company’s Blue Origin, claims that people live in space “mainly because they want it,” and the robot handles grant work, but the vast AI data center floats above his head.
The declaration sounds a bit like Bezos is about to make his universe rival one. Elon Musk has spent years predicting that humans would colonize Mars, suggesting that by 2050, one million people could live there. Maybe both gazillioneaires have lost contact, or else they know that the rest of our zillows aren’t.
Bezos was equally bullish on other fronts, defending the AI investment boom as a “good” kind of bubble, given that it is “industrial” rather than “financial.”
“There was never a better time than being excited about the future,” he reportedly said.
