For Trump et al, the Personal is Always Political
In an era of rapid technological advancement, it’s disconcerting that gut instinct and snap judgments by many leaders shape our world.
Even at the furthermost edges of our technocratic fantasies, there is usually a highly fallible human running the show. In Wernher von Braun’s 1949 science fiction novel Project Mars a highly advanced humanoid race lives in a system of canals and superhighways below the surface of the planet. Its leader, appointed for five years under a system of universal suffrage, is called, memorably, The Elon. It was a story familiar to one Errol Musk.
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