*It's Elon's WORLD, and rest of Us live in it. " * In that sense, Musk comes off much more like Thomas Edison than Howard Hughes. He's an inventor, Celebrity business man, and industrialists able to take big ideas and turn then into big products. He's employing thousands of people to forge metal in American factories at a time when this was thought to be impossible. Born in South Africa, Musk now looks like America's most innovative industrialists and outladish thinker and the person most likely to set Silicon Valley on a more ambitious course. Because of Musk, Americans could wake up in ten years with the most modern highway in the world: a transit system run by thousands of solar-powered charging stations and traversed by electric cars. By that time, SpaceX may well be sending up rockets every day, taking people and things to dozens of habitats and making preparations for longer treks to Mars. These advances are simultaneously difficult to fathom and seemingly inevitable if musk can simply buy enough time to make them work. As his ex-wife, Justine, put it, "He does what he wants, and he is restless about it. Elon's World, and the rest of us live in it. "