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When I ask myself "Who is the most important person of our time", I have only one name in my mind - Elon Musk.

If you don`t know who he is, let me explain. He is an entrepreneur of a "new era" - he is the owner of such companies as Tesla Inc., SpaceX, Hyperloop. He was a founder of a well-known payment system PayPal.

He was that person who decided approximately 10 years ago that somebody should demonstrate others power of electrocars - and he did it successfully. He showed automotive companies that electroocars could be profitable. And what you can see now? Electrocars is a global trand and in 20 years 80% of us will forget about petrol.

I will not write a lot about his products for renewable energy - it is not so fascinating, renewables have already become an indispensable part of our life.

But what I want to write is his space company SpaceX. They have already signed a one-billion contract with NASA - it is OK. But Elon Musk would not be Elon Musk if he had not mentioned about much bigger targets - he is going to colonise... Mars! Of course, we all understand probability of this event during our lifetime, but... but, maybe, you remember words of one great man, that were said at the beginning of 60`s: "We choose to go to the Moon... We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and to do other things not because they are easy, but because they are hard...".

Elon Musk and his SpaceX now have the most powerful rocket of all huminkind and they are going to fly several people to the Moon in the nearest future - even, maybe, they will be able to compete with NASA! Just imagine! A private company vs the US government!

I am sure, without Elon Musk our technology development would be a little slower. We would not have nowadays so many private space companies that want to earn money in space and auto-giants would not start production of dozens different models of electrocars. He is changing the way we will live.