Space Twitter!

“We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters.” Peter Thiel's famous quote from 2011 was obviously meant to inspire entrepreneurs to think and dream bigger than the rather trivial tech "breakthroughs" of the day – meaning, of course, Twitter. Well, a lot can change in 15 years.

With the news that SpaceX is acquiring xAI, that 140-character service now technically has a home in the stars.¹ It's not flying cars, but it is flying rockets. And there's now a direct line of sight to flying cars, once Tesla is inevitably folded into the mix as well...