What Walter Isaacson’s biography of Elon Musk lacks is insight into the world’s richest man.
. From it, he has derived “that we need to extend the scope of consciousness so that we are better able to ask the questions about the answer, which is the universe.”
Somehow it gets done, with a lot of blood and a bit of spit, or “working maniacally”, in Isaacson’s infelicitous formulation. Musk, it emerges, has an uncanny finger-tip feel for the properties of the materials he is working with and how designs can be simplified. Since a similar volume about Steve Jobs, Isaacson has become the unofficial scribe of modern American hyper capitalists, excusing their anti-social tendencies by invoking their greatness, and indulging a penchant for caffeinated descriptors that could have been rendered by AI.
Isaacson’s Rosebud is that Musk was bullied by his monstrous father: “It’s one of the most resonant tropes in mythology. To what extent does the epic quest of thehero require exorcising demons bequeathed by Darth Vader and wrestling with the dark side of the Force?”
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