Back in 2019, Elon Musk was surprisingly upbeat for a guy juggling rockets, cars, and a brain-chip startup. At a Neuralink event at the California Academy of Sciences, Musk made it clear—he wasn’t buying into the whole “everything’s terrible” narrative. “Humanity can address a lot of the suffering that occurs in the world and make things a lot better,” he said. “I think a lot of times people are quite sort of negative about the present and about the future, but really if you are a student of his
