Talk us through this. What are we looking at here?
What on earth is going on here?
Well, this illustrates the picture of the future that I think is how things will evolve.
Yeah I think it's quite likely that we would want to bioengineer new organisms
Humanity has kind of done that over time
by sort of selective breeding
You know, cows didn't evolve in the wild
but that's a very slow process
requires hundreds of generations
Whereas, I think, with actual bioengineering you could make that happen a lot faster
maybe with more precision
Ideally, long term, although this is a tricky subject, you'd want to write genetics
Meaning, you would want to create synthetic organisms
You know, start with some base and then modify stuff
So, you've started a new company to do this
Okay, but I'm curious whether there is anything you could show us today
I'll show you a teaser shot of the...
It's alive
Okay
No, that's definitely a case where we want to be cautious
We can't see that much of it, but it doesn't look like just a little friendly neighbor
It looks kind of badass.
You've designed this outrageous, this super sexy, exciting thing
Well, visually you can see that's a person
OK, from a really badass picture to a kind of less badass picture
We need to address a global market
Okay
There's a lot of people out there who think you shouldn't be doing that
Why, Elon... because this is like
Why?
I love anime
As one does
Yeah
At least the words were said
Okay
There have to be reasons that you get up in the morning and you want to live
 Like, why do you want to live? What's the point?
What inspires you?
 But I want to be clear. I'm not trying to be anyone's savior.
I'm just trying to think about the future and not be sad
Thank you for helping us all to dream a bit bigger.
But you'll tell me if it ever starts getting genuinely insane, right?
Thank you, Elon Musk. That was really, really fantastic. That was really fantastic.
