How games helped make Elon Musk the real-life Tony Stark

Elon Musk owns a space company, an electric car company, and a solar energy company. And he credits video games for getting him started on his path.

Astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson, most famous for hosting Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey and for deciding Pluto isn’t a planet, had Musk on a recent episode of the radio show Startalk. The two covered many subjects, including Musk’s fear of superintelligent computers. But Tyson started their conversation by asking Musk to explain his origin story, and to answer that, the Tesla founder went straight into a tale about video games.

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