9 books inspired Elon Musk to become the most influential men in the world

Mohamed Salah

Billionaire Elon Musk, the founder of SpaceX and Tesla Motors, ranked 21 by Forbes as the world's most influential man, still has time to read and see it as crucial.

He read the entire British encyclopedia at the age of nine, and was interested in learning about space science, technology, physics and renewable energy.

Since his announcement to provide high-speed Internet access to the entire planet via 12,000 satellites, Musk aspires to change the shape of life on Earth.He recommends reading a collection of books on various subjects, which he says are the ones that made his character and shaped his vision of the world and led him to success.

"Supernatural Intelligence" by Nick Bostrom
To find out why there are dreadful risks that may occur if computational intelligence exceeds human intelligence, Musk recommends reading this book, which addresses this issue very boldly. Musk has repeatedly warned of the dangers of uncensored AI, saying in a 2014 tweet, "We need to be very careful about AI," calling it "potentially more dangerous than nuclear weapons."

In a documentary on artificial intelligence entitled Do you trust this computer? "Artificial intelligence can be used to create an immortal dictator we can never escape," Musk said. That's why Musk donated $ 10 billion to the Institute for the Future of Humanity to organize AI.

"Traders of doubt"
It is now a documentary by Naomi Orskis and Eric M. Conway, proves that scientists with political and industrial ties have withheld the facts surrounding a range of public health issues, including tobacco, pesticide use and the ozone hole. Musk nominated the book at a conference in 2013, later referring to the main excerpt in a tweet, saying that "the forces that denied that smoking causes cancer were themselves denying the threat of climate change."

"Moon is a cruel mistress"
This science fiction novel by Robert Henlin, published in 1966, and received several awards, will satisfy the imagination of Elon Musk fertile. Some people are exiled from the earth to the moon, setting up a free society there, and in 2076, a group of that lunar colony, including a supercomputer called Mike and a one-arm computer technician, revolt against the rulers of the earth. In an interview at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology during a 2014 seminar, Mask said the book was Henlin's best work.

"The Life Story of Benjamin Franklin"
Musk believes that Benjamin Franklin's experience is similar to that of a businessman who started from scratch after he was just a runaway child, so he is seen as one of his heroes.

"Structures: or why things do not fall"
The book, written by J. Gordon, when Mask considered his plans to colonize Mars and served as CEO and chief designer at SpaceX, undertook to learn the basics of rocket science.This book was one of the books that helped him when he was involved in planning and designing SpaceX's Falcon Heavy.

The book is useful for anyone who wants to know why buildings, planes and bridges do not fall, and can engineering benefit from nature? It presents contemporary insights into all structures and designs whose breaking rules can cause people to die.

"Einstein" by Walter Isaacson
One of the most inspiring books in the 2012 interview, Musk recommended the biography of Albert Einstein, "The Man Who Left a Deep Mark in Science and the History of Humanity." She contributed to his transformation from a frustrated young man and a simple employee, to one of the most important physicists in history and Nobel laureate.

"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
Douglas Adams, one of the most famous science fiction stories, revolves around a travel guide to the galaxy to discover and discover its creatures.

"Lord of the Rings" and "Foundation"
The "Lord of the Rings" trilogy of John R. Tolkien and the "Trilogy" of Isaac Azimov are united by the idea that heroes have a duty to save mankind.

“The lessons of history may indicate that civilizations are moving in cycles,” he said in an interview with The Guardian. “It is clear that we are in a very bullish cycle now, and there may be a series of events that are causing low technology. ".

Musk also told the New Yorker in 2009 that his fondness for imagination as a child in South Africa attracted him to the Lord of the Rings, the epic fictional epic novel that left a mark on his own future.