Chief Prognosticator

The First Trillionaire

I wrote about this once before on the *old* Chief Prognosticator site, but I think I need to share this prediction with you: The First Trillionaire.

[W]ho will be the first trillionaire and how will they do it? Bill Gates made his money on Software. Carlos Slim made his money in telecommunications. What’s left? Well for one, I don’t think there is enough anything in the world to create a trillion dollars of personal wealth — that’s why I am looking elsewhere…

Prediction: The World’s First Trillionaire will earn their money in space!

Either space travel (think Virgin Galactic) or, more plausibly, mining asteroids for minerals and raw materials. Asteroids have trillions of dollars worth of precious and rare metals in them and they are just floating around in the solar system waiting to be taken. The first person to be able to land on an asteroid with robots and mine it will be a trillionaire. There is no question in my mind this will happen!