It turned out that the billionaire engineer of the United States — not just an economic threat to our country. He’s worse than an eyesore.
If you conduct a survey among the citizens about who is the main enemy of Russia, wins the U.S. President. The name doesn’t matter. For decades, we are convinced that the White house is our main enemy, which is like a monkey wrench in the wheel and always nasty builds.
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But really, the main enemy of Russian — American engineer and businessman. Today the most prominent representative of this tribe speaks billionaire Elon Musk, who last year admitted that his family is afraid that the Russian would kill him. These words should not be taken literally, but they accurately describe the attitude of the Russian elite to a modern Thomas Edison. Elon Musk ranks among the most influential people, the best businessmen and best managers. His areas of interests are multi-faceted. This is rocket science — the world’s first private spacecraft Dragon partially reusable rocket Falcon regularly flies to the ISS, and a few years later, the project Mask, should be sent to Mars. The plans and the manned mission.
It is the creation of electric cars — the capitalization of the company Tesla Motors in a few years to reach a trillion dollars. In 2013, Tesla’s sales have overtaken luxury Mercedes-Benz S-class, BMW-7 and Audi A8. Company Mask covers America network of Supercharger stations, which will be charged straight from the sun. This solar batteries for energy company Solar City is ahead of all the global developments in alternative energy.
It information technology — payment system PayPal has become one of the most popular. One of the latest projects the Mask — creation space of the Internet with direct access to consumers through a fleet of 4000 light, only 100 kg satellites. The total cost of the three companies Mask Solar City, SpaceX and Tesla Motors more than $50 billion and Engineer Elon Musk is shaping the future to a much greater extent than any President. Politicians often push the world back, and Elon Musk shows the way forward. The zone of influence in the modern world are determined not so much by the heads of state, how many people like Steve jobs and Elon Musk. The trouble of Russia is that we have no one to sit at the negotiating table with these people.
For example, the space the Internet will make ridiculous barriers that raise state and intelligence agencies in the way of information dissemination, will put an end to the TV and paper media, will change the social infrastructure of society. Or energy — Elon Musk has already announced the creation of industrial solar battery Powerpack with a capacity of 100 kW. This is three times more than it consumes in a day American family. Two billion of these batteries solve the problem of the transition of the whole planet on renewable energy that will deal a crushing blow to commodity-dependent economies and oil companies. Of course, Russia is not excited by developments Mask. Hopelessly losing the competition in the field of high technologies, our experts at every opportunity to sarcastically comment on Western innovations. But, it is a shame, for humanity musk’s ideas mean more than all research active members of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the only achievement which in recent years has been structural reform.
As we commented, Musk volleys refutes the skeptics. The world’s first private spaceship Dragon and Falcon 9 rocket being squeezed out of the American Astronautics the Russian “Unions” and “Protons”. On government contracts, SpaceX has received $3.2 billion — more than the budget of Roscosmos. In 2017, they scheduled the first manned flight of Dragon to the ISS. And in order to compete with the “Proton”, it is necessary to reduce the cost of the Dragon start from $133 million to $60 million At velocities that moves from success to success, Musk, the solution is not far off.
Billionaire and engineer Mask — not just an economic threat to Russia. He’s worse than an eyesore, and hurt worse than a splinter under the nail. Over the years, we talked about the need for a breakthrough in high technology, the rise of science, innovation and the knowledge economy. But the result is not visible, which proves that high technology is not necessary for our economy, and the rare attempts of innovations are rejected as a foreign body.
Can to fix the situation? It seems that we are resigned to the impossibility of upgrading and waiting for the lifting of sanctions, in order to catch up to modern technological level. If you would hope on their own strength, not declared to the conservatism of the strategic direction. Conservatism and progress — two things are incompatible.
However, the technological level of our country has met only for a short period of history — in 1940-1970-ies. In other learned people of the era were faced with lack of demand for talents and inventions. It is difficult to find another country that had provided such rich foreign exports of all kinds of discoveries. A household name for a Russian inventor is the name of Kulibina, which was built for the Empress of mechanical theater with a thousand figures. But the main inventions, Kulibina went abroad — from the prosthesis to the elevators.
In Russia always the result of scientific work were separated from its Creator. Hence the humiliation of an engineer in front of money bag. The lack of patents, even the huge companies like Norilsk Nickel and Rocket-space Corporation “Energy”, led to their privatization for a song. Commercially successful of Edison and gates, fords and Nobels in Russia never was.
Merchant Savel Wild in “the Storm” Lord it over a mechanic by Caliginem: “What I tell you — absolutely! <…> So you know that you are a worm. I will want pardon, I will want crushed”.
The mechanic offered a completely obvious thing — the lightning rods, but the local oligarch investment was at his throat. The fate of the modern Russian scientist is little different from the suffering Kuligin. If only he will not be able to leave for the Nobel prize abroad, as graduates of MIPT Geim and Novoselov.
We are enthusiastically proud of their gumption and ingenuity, but why in Russia people like Elon musk, the afternoon with fire not find? And why, in America, successful engineers darkness at all times — Thomas Edison, Nikolai Tesla, Robert wood, Steve jobs, bill gates, Paul Allen, Vladimir Zworykin, and Igor Sikorsky (Oh…)
In Russia, the development of domestic electric vehicle by means of billionaire Prokhorov was accompanied by jeers and was closed after five years of torment and agony. And the world is running around 80 thousand Tesla. Long-term attempts of our latest Nobel prize winner Zhores Alferov to start in Russia solar energy to no avail. Maybe it’s not in talents, and in the conditions that surround them? Innovators rested his head in the low concrete ceiling.
Our oligarchs, and the number of billionaires Russia is in second place in the world, made a fortune in the trade of mineral resources. And there is no one who would enrich the world of the miraculous invention. Is it because among the space tourists on Board there was not a Russian millionaire? Americans — a lot, and every set in space scientific experiments. Even private investment in the space program for all the talk about what is our national pride, is not observed. Our millionaires stand firmly on the ground, clinging to the ground and to soar in the Empyrean of scientific not want. It is better to stay on the grass at the house…
Today Elon musk in Russia would be considered an outsider and would quickly peck. The bird is not from our pack. And yet reason to hope that we will have your Ivan Mask, are not visible.
