Blue Origin founder and billionaire Jeff Bezos presented his vision of the future of humanity inhabiting the solar system. “I think in a lot of these endeavors we’re very like-minded‚” Bezos said on an episode of the Lex Fridman Podcast. He added‚ “I don’t really know Elon very well‚” but he said that he liked the idea of forming a friendship with him. Asked what he hoped for humanity’s future in outer space hundreds or thousands of years from now‚ he replied: “I would love to see‚ you know‚ a trillion humans living in the solar system. If we had a trillion humans‚ we would have at any given time a thousand Mozarts and a thousand Einsteins…Our solar system would be full of life and intelligence and energy.” What companies like Blue Origin and SpaceX are doing‚ he said‚ is creating the space infrastructure upon which future generations can build greater things. “When I started Amazon‚ I didn’t have to develop a payment system. It already existed. It was called the credit card‚” he said. “I didn’t have to develop a transportation system to deliver the packages. It already existed. It was called the postal service and Royal Mail and Deutsche Post. And so all this heavy lifting infrastructure was already in place. And I could stand on its shoulders.” Bezos said that he wanted to use his “Amazon winnings” to build heavy infrastructure that will be used by the space entrepreneurs of future generations. “When you can have a really valuable space company started in a dorm room‚ then we know that we’ve built enough infrastructure so that ingenuity and imagination can really be unleashed‚” he said. “I find that very exciting.” He envisions people living in giant space stations‚ which have “a lot of advantages over planetary surfaces‚” including the ability to spin them to create normal gravity. He said most people would want to live near Earth and go there for vacation‚ “the same way you might go to Yellowstone National Park.” The post Jeff Bezos proposes increasing the human population to one trillion appeared first on Anomalien.com.