Kids often dream of donning a mask and matching cape and flying out into the night to save the world using their awesome superpowers. Then adulthood — or perhaps just common sense — shatters most of our kickass dreams.
But don’t give up. Just because you won’t be suiting up as the Hulk outside of Comic Con doesn’t mean you can’t go through life dressed up as his more normal alter ego, physicist Dr. Bruce Banner.
Here are the superheroes of tech, both real and fictional, you told us on Facebook you most wanted to be.
Elon Musk (Above)
Elon Musk dreams as big as his comic book counterpart, Iron Man Tony Stark. He wants to
build an 80,000-person colony on Mars, and when he’s not driving around in one of his electric Teslas, he’s trying to make space exploration more accessible for the common man. SpaceX, the company he started 10 years ago with that purpose in mind, launched the first private spacecraft into orbit in 2008 and, in 2012, became the first private company to deliver cargo to the International Space Station.
He ultimately wants “to make life multiplanetary,”
Musk told former Wired editor-in-chief Chris Anderson. (If you want to be one of the first to join this superhero on the Red Planet, start filling your coffers. You’ll need to fork over
$500,000.)
Photo: Art Streiber
