“In the next kind of couple of decades, I believe there will be millions of people living in space,” he said. “That’s how fast this is going to accelerate.”
“They’ll mostly be living there because they want to,” he added. “We don’t need people to live in space.”
“If you need to do some work on the surface of the moon or anywhere else, we will be able to send robots to do that work, and that will be much more cost-effective than sending humans.”
And Bezos can’t wrap his head around the doom and gloom rhetoric that’s been going around since ChatGPT’s frenzied launch: “Civilizational abundance comes from our inventions,” he insisted.
“So 10,000 years ago, or whenever it was, somebody invented the plough, and we all got richer…. I’m talking about all of civilization, these tools increase our abundance, and that pattern will continue.”
It’s not just Jeff Bezos who predicts that you could be applying for jobs and a mortgage from another planet in the coming future, Sam Altman and Elon Musk have shared similar predictions too.
While space exploration is seemingly right around the corner, Bill Gates thinks billionaires and world leaders would be better off focusing their efforts on the planet we currently call home.
