Unmusking the tree from which the Technoking apple fell

Elon Musk’s ideas seem shaped by his grandfather, but ‘worryingly his ideology is more dystopian than utopian’

01 November 2021 - 20:14 By John Authers

Where does Elon Musk get his ideas from? What is he trying to achieve and who does he want to be? Many of us are desperate to understand the world’s richest man, whose electric vehicle-maker Tesla is now, according to the stock market, worth $1-trillion. Jill Lepore, a historian at Harvard University, suggests Musk was shaped by his adolescent love of science fiction and the strange, science-obsessed politics of his Canadian grandfather...

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