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Civilizations advance by harnessing increasingly greater energy
Civilizations advance by harnessing increasingly greater energy
Musk frames civilizational development in terms of progressively harnessing planetary, stellar, and eventually galactic energy, presenting solar-scale energy use as a future stage of development.
- Speaker
- Elon Musk
- Source timestamp
- 18:40
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