"This idea of a human merger with machines has been a motif in Musk’s intellectual life, which has remained in many ways (and with many terrible results) that of an arrogant and cloistered adolescent boy." www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
Space Oddity | Mark O’ConnellQuinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff’s Muskism examines how Elon Musk became the world’s first trillionaire, by selling a vision of the future that very few people would want to inhabit.www.nybooks.com
With that headline photo thought the article was going to be a look at the influence of Russian Cosmoism on the guy. Don't think the piece is bad, probably a good book, but it almost feels like saying Musk independently recreated Cosmism through anime and racism? english.elpais.com/science-tech...
Russian cosmism: inspiring Putin and Musk with ideas of immortality and space colonizationThe intellectual movement of the late 19th century influenced the Soviet space race and contemporary transhumanists in Silicon Valleyenglish.elpais.com
