Elon Musk

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• SOURCE: NBC News
  4/27/2022
  

  Musk's Twitter Bid Harkens Back to Hearst

  Richard White and Brad DeLong consider how the megabillionaire's bid for Twitter stacks up against other efforts by the ultra-rich to build media empires – is it more about attention and less about advancing financial interests? 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  4/25/2022
  

  Trying to Change Twitter's Content Moderation is Going to Disappoint Elon Musk

  by Evelyn Douek

  Musk is delusional if he thinks that Twitter can function without moderation. The problem this highlights is the ability of a small number of billionaires to make the decisions that shape the contemporary public sphere. 

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• SOURCE: Fast Company
  3/13/2022
  

  Jill Lepore Debunks Elon Musk's Futurism

  Is Elon Musk's worldview based in a singularly weird interpretation of the sci-fi books he devoured as a kid? Jill Lepore discusses the rise of the self-styled comic book hero CEO as a matter of confusing dystopia for a how-to guide. 

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• SOURCE: Inverse
  12/5/2021
  

  Amy Shira Teitel: Why is Space Such a Boys' Club?

  "Space skews predominantly male, especially Apollo-era space history because that was the era when little boys growing up were being told, 'You can be an astronaut, too'!"

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• 11/21/2021
  

  Adulation for Today's Space Race is Misplaced. So is Nostalgia for the First One

  by Catherine Devlin

  It is impossible not to compare today’s billionaire space race to the iconic celestial competition of the 1960’s. But what if neither is worthy of adulation?

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• 8/1/2021
  

  Ike Would Like the New Private Space Race

  by Yanek Mieczkowski

  Wary of government spending and the entanglement of public money with private contractors, Dwight Eisenhower would find much to like in today's billionaire space race. 

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• 10/10/18
  

  Why Is NASA Spending Billions to Build a Rocket When Elon Musk Has a Cheaper One?

  by James Stejskal

  The answer is only partly because of the concerns about Musk.

• SOURCE: Bloomberg News
  8-14-13
  

  Stephen Mihm: New York Had a Hyperloop First, Elon Musk

  Stephen Mihm, an associate professor of history at the University of Georgia, is a contributor to the Ticker. Follow him on TwitterAh, the “hyperloop.” Elon Musk, whose track record as a technological visionary is unimpeachable, has released details of his plan for a futuristic system of transport. The basic idea is to use air pressure to shoot people-carrying pods through tubes at speeds of up to 760 miles per hour.With all due respect to Mr. Musk, the idea isn’t new. This has been pointed out by some commentators, who have noted that in 1972 Rand Corporation researcher R. M. Salter released a proposal to ferry passengers from New York to Los Angles in a mere 21 minutes, or 14 minutes less than the hyperloop would take to send them from Los Angeles to San Francisco. But at its heart, Musk’s project is even more old school: It owes most of its inspiration to ideas that have been around for two hundred years.