Elon Musk talks Star Trek and Star Wars as his key science-fiction influences from film.
Elon Musk: "I mean, I love technology. So I, yeah what I mean, particularly when I was a kid I'd just consume like all science-fiction and fantasy, you know, movies, books, anything at all, even if it was really shlucky. So - in terms of sort of key influences, I mean I certainly like Star Trek, because that actually shows like more of a utopian future, like it's not like, things aren't horrible in the future. It's like there's so many bloody post-apocalyptic futures, like okay can we have one that's nice? Just a few. So I like that about Star Trek. You know in terms of some sort of key books and movies, I means obviously Star Wars - like Star Wars was the first movie I ever saw, so obviously that's gonna be fairly influential. It's like I'd never seen a movie in a theatre before -
Student: "I just played it on loop for me."
Elon Musk: "Yeah. So it was like super great."
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