Elon Musk as an Architect
Elon Musk has drafted a triumphant picture of a great businessman and a media-influencing personality today. Time’s Magazine has carved his name as the Person of the year 2021. indeed, he is: also figured in the list of billionaires. The power of building an idea from scratch into a fully functioning infrastructure and a business asset derives from his ability to deal with challenges and overcome the boundaries of experimenting with the impossible. He has broken the chain of following the footsteps of trends either in the success or business demand-supply graph.
The world recognizes him as the CEO of successful and pioneering companies and a great businessman. Perhaps the business mind has the power to invent and build; technologies and innovations, which even reflect the personality of an architect.
The idea of his first start-up:
After graduating in economics and physics, Musk decided to work on his web software company ZIP2 instead to continue his education in business development. The idea behind the development of web software was to create a Global Link Information Network, which would help small business owners to sell their business online and understand the viability of the internet. Network marketing and digital media were not the processes used back those days, hence introducing an idea not just to make ease of commercialization but to serve and enhance the basic methodology of local business, which uplifted the motive of designing such software.
Concept of new Space Science:
Elon Musk, after holding the ownership of ZIP2 and X.com although at a very young age, earned recognition and capital; moreover, these innovations enabled his perspective of analyzing and inventing new solutions for wider diameters of global challenges; and in his further journey of science and business, he focused on the conventional finance and mechanism required to build a space rocket which ignited the idea of building his techniques to make space rockets and launch programs later on after counted failures, this idea turned into a massive and successful business, and it also added an interface in the dimension of space science : this concept is today known as- SpaceX.
SpaceX is the new face in trade commerce and aeronautical engineering, which established the sustainable phase of the rocket launch mission. The new mechanism developed the conventional techniques of launches to technological advancements in terms of economic manufacturing of rockets by reusing the parts of rocket capsules for every new launch mission.
CEO and Product Architect:
The problem of global warming and the agenda of the environment has been a serious concern for a long time. Transportation medium is also one of the contributors to carbon emissions and environmental pollution. Despite an alarming situation, the need for vehicles is rising exponentially every year. Hence an effective plan is required to erect the barrier against the footsteps of devastation. The propaganda turned the mind of several engineers and policymakers, including Musk. Musk tied up with two engineers to concrete the idea and prototype of electrically driven cars. Musk and his team started working on the prototype to develop lithium batteries to support the electrical power to accelerate the car, where he reinforced the engineering interventions and final design of the model.
Musk and his team discovered a new venture in transportation history on the pillars of alternating current as the mechanism of the vehicles, and they named this technical discovery as Tesla. Tesla is again a successful company of vehicles with its manufacturing established overseas.
Era of Artificial Inteligence:
Musk describes robotics and artificial intelligence as the next ruler of the whole world and finds them a threat to humanity as the development of technology and interface of the cyber world can acquire the human capability of leading a life-cycle. He is now putting efforts into developing artificial intelligence to empower human ability so that humans can overcome the challenges of lack of accuracy and enhance their skills with program database storage chips inserted into the human body.
He has created a team of thousands of people inside the buildings named Open AI and Neuralink to work on the particular concept and the development of such a miniature device and safeguard humankind from an acquaintance of technological terror.
The personification of Architect:
The job of an architect is not just the construction of iconic buildings, cities, and infrastructure. However, it is the responsibility of an architect to construct the solutions to the problems faced by the people in terms of infrastructural measures, amenities, and the environment offered to the people living in the surroundings of massive construction dwellings. Architects aim to build a healthy built environment for the inhabitants of the building and the cities.
In the same way, Elon Musk derives the personification of an Architect by structuring the core of human life in terms of the digital world, infrastructure development, scientific innovation, cyber security, and economic development of global finance. He has reinforced the health and wealth of the life cycle and working to safeguard the environment from future depletion.
Reference:
- Vance A. (2015). Elon Musk-How the billionaire CEO of SpaceX and Tesla is shaping our future. London. Virgin books publication.
