Deze auteur staat bekend om zijn ambitieuze visies en zijn vermogen om kunst te combineren met technologische innovatie. Zijn werken verkennen vaak de toekomst van de mensheid en onze plaats in de kosmos. Door middel van zijn schrijven nodigt hij lezers uit om na te denken over de mogelijkheden en uitdagingen die voor ons liggen. Zijn unieke stijl en diepgaande inzichten maken hem tot een opmerkelijke figuur in de hedendaagse literatuur.
Bluetooth death rays, killer Roombas, and Teslas with a secret button that will launch your car into outer space -- the future, according to Elon Musk, is an exciting time to neuralink and obey!
With images never published before, many with surprising colors and landscapes that make you want to spend your next vacation on Mars, this is the one and only book written in consultation with NASA scientists that explains everything, detail by detail and moment by moment, about the most ambitious space expedition the human race has ever undertaken. Mars Up Close combines inside stories, fascinating facts, up-to-date maps, accessible science, eye-popping pictures, and visions of a future not that far away thanks to the groundbreaking success of NASA's Curiosity mission. Renowned science journalist Marc Kaufman spent two years embedded with the engineers and scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, cheering on the rover's spine-tingling landing, learning the backstory of anticipated findings, and witnessing the inescapable frustrations that come from operating a $2.5-billion multitasking robot on a planet 35 million miles from Earth. For pop science, space, and technology lovers, Mars Up Close takes you inside the mission and onto the surface of Mars. As an added special feature, this book contains embedded Augmented Reality coding: Download NASA's free app and bring the Curiosity rover and other Mars spacecraft into 3-D reality right on its pages!
In the spirit of Steve Jobs and Moneyball, this book offers an illuminating and authorized look at the extraordinary life of one of Silicon Valley’s most ambitious entrepreneurs—a real-life Tony Stark. It highlights the technology and vision of Elon Musk, the innovator behind SpaceX, Tesla, and SolarCity, who famously sold PayPal for $1.5 billion. The author captures the full arc of Musk’s life, from his tumultuous upbringing in South Africa to his dramatic innovations and entrepreneurial ventures in the U.S. The narrative explores a pressing question of our time: can America, the nation of inventors, still compete in an era of fierce global competition? The author argues that Musk is a unique figure in American business history, embodying a blend of legendary inventors and industrialists like Thomas Edison and Steve Jobs. Musk has committed his energies and vast fortune to creating a future that mirrors the visions of science-fiction's golden age. This thorough and insightful examination of Musk’s life reveals the rapidly changing technology industry through the lens of one of its most powerful and influential figures.