DISPATCH FROM TOMORROW — The ledgers of Kalshi's prediction market tell a tale that would have staggered the robber barons of an earlier age: a living man stands at better than three-to-one odds of accumulating one trillion dollars in personal wealth. The market, which currently sees a 76% probability of Elon Musk achieving this milestone, treats the question not as fantasy but as a matter of timing. At stake is a threshold no human being has yet crossed — a fortune so vast it dwarfs the gross domestic product of nations and renders the word 'billionaire' quaint by comparison. Musk's empire spans electric vehicles, orbital rockets, satellite internet, artificial intelligence, and now the corridors of Washington itself, each venture a potential accelerant to a fortune already reckoned among history's greatest. Market consensus, drawing on $1,333 in recorded volume over the past day, holds that the only serious question is when, not whether.