Elon Musk: The future we're building – and boring (TED2017)

Ask HN: A core component of Musk's strategy is radically reducing the cost of underground drilling (now 14x slower than a snail, evidently).

Considering how drilling underlies many existing big businesses (oil wells, civic engineering) in the status quo, this seems like a pretty ambitious proposal.

Can there really be a Moore's Law-esque progression in drilling?

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