There is always someone that leads us into the future. Someone whose vision and entrepreneurship combine to make the next big idea, the next big thing.
This has been true from Franklin, to Edison, from From Henry Ford to Thomas Watson, from Bill Gates to Steve Jobs and today Elon Musk may very well be the inheritor of that mantel.
Electric cars, commercial space travel, high speed transportation and even new forms of education, are all part of the vision that Musk sees; and and his vision is on its way to become our reality.
Bloomberg's Ashlee Vance has written a new biography, Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future.
My conversation with Ashlee Vance: