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“One way to think of Musk’s endeavors is as things you wouldn’t need to explain to the audience in a movie set in the near future.”
This is great read from John Hermann on the boringly low stakes of Musk’s “everything app,” but also on what makes Musk so alluring to so many people:
He really does mislead and misdirect sometimes, but to write him off as a grifter is to fail to engage not just with the scale and influence of his companies but also with how his ardent supporters and casual admirers actually experience him: as a guy who talks about the future in a way that isn’t exclusively depressing.
Elon Musk’s Incredible Shrinking Future
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