On Becoming a Famous Inventor
I was sitting yesterday, eating my Shredded Wheat and watching GMA. I was waiting to hear about the twelve year-old who found a 5 carat diamond at a state park, (so I can plan my next vacation), when I saw a story about the Hyperloop. (Elon Musk/Tesla Motors/SpaceX) If you haven't heard, the Hyperloop is going to be a *super-duper-fast mode of transportation. Basically, you climb into an over sized bank tube and it shoots you across the country. The inventor, Elon Musk looks kind of like a movie star, not a leading man, but the guy who is friends with the leading man. (Plus, he has a Hollywood name- Elon Musk. Really?) When he was explaining his idea, he said the Hyperloop would be a combination of a Concorde, a rail gun and an air hockey table. What? Is it just me, or did he just name off three really random things? Is that what you can do when you're super-smart and uber-successful? Then, after all the hype and talk about his idea, he says, "But, I'm n...