Elon Musk Predicts 3 Huge Milestones for the Next Decade by Mike Crisolago

Elon Musk is known for his visions of the future — even if most don’t come true. Nevertheless, such predictions, made by the world’s richest man — who controls some of the world’s biggest tech companies — at the very least allow observers to imagine that a future once confined to the realms of sci-fi fantasy could actually be within reach. On Tuesday’s earnings call, these three predictions stood out from the rest:

  1. SpaceX would deliver $1 trillion in revenue by 2030: No company has ever recorded a trillion dollars in revenue in a year, but Musk believes SpaceX could hit that mark sooner than even he’d projected.
  2. Starlink will provide the majority of the world’s internet in less than a decade: This is a bold prediction given the world boasts around six billion internet users and Starlink’s current subscriber base of 12 million represents about 0.2% of them.
  3. SpaceX could build a manufacturing hub on the moon: Perhaps the boldest of Musk’s predictions is his desire to use robots “to scale up manufacturing on the moon” to build factories, a mass accelerator and enable solar and radiator production. This is the prediction he referred to as sounding “super sci-fi right now” while reiterating that “it will happen with boots on the moon in 2028.”  Elon Musk predicts 3 huge milestones for the next decade: ‘It sounds super sci-fi but it’s going to happen’