"'I was watching 'The Prestige' with my sons last Saturday night. Set in the late Victorian Era, I found many quotes by the character of Nikola Tesla (played by David Bowie) elegantly capture the zeitgeist of today's era of scientific discovery,' Morgan Stanley's Adam Jonas wrote in an analyst note on Monday. The note was released shortly after Tesla announced a proposed pay package for Musk that could be worth as much as $1 trillion."
"For those who haven't seen it, 'The Prestige' follows a feud between warring magicians Alfred Borden (Christian Bale) and Robert Angier (Hugh Jackman), two friends-turned-enemies in 19th-century London. The scene Jonas is referencing sees Bowie's Nikola Tesla warn Angier, who has become consumed by obsession and jealousy, about the consequences of using a dangerous new technology to perform a fresh magic trick and upstage his rival."
"Jonas, Morgan Stanley's managing director of global autos research, continued his foray into film criticism by linking several quotes from 'The Prestige' to 10 predictions 'for a world soon to be populated with autonomous robots.' According to Jonas, Nikola Tesla's warning to Angier that 'the world only tolerates one change at a time' links to the growing overlap between Tesla and Elon Musk's other companies, Tesla's robotaxi fleet hitting 2,000 cars by 2026, aerial drones, and 'Optimus limbs for Neuralink cyborgs.'"
Christopher Nolan's The Prestige features Nikola Tesla warning that 'the world only tolerates one change at a time' amid a feud between magicians consumed by obsession and jealousy. That warning is applied to a projected future of autonomous robots, including a Tesla robotaxi fleet expected to reach 2,000 cars by 2026, aerial drones, and Optimus limbs paired with Neuralink-enabled cyborgs. Tesla's proposed pay package for Elon Musk could reach $1 trillion. Coverage of Tesla frequently uses cultural analogies, metaphors, and creative commentary to frame the company's overlapping technological ambitions and rapid rollout of transformative products.
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