Musk shows new Tesla Roadster as "flying cars" moment, echoing Thiel's stagnation thesis
esrtweet · x · 2026-10-17
A thread revisits Peter Thiel's argument that technological innovation outside the digital realm has stagnated since the 1970s, with flying cars and space colonization never materializing. Elon Musk quote-posts with a photo of the new Tesla Roadster, writing "Turns out the future does have flying cars," framing the reveal as the end of the Great Stagnation.
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