Over the course of nine months of reporting, watching Musk do everything from strategize Mars landings with his rocket-engineering team to plan the next breakthroughs with his artificial-intelligence experts, I learned he is someone far, far different from what his myth and reputation suggest. Nor is he a Silicon Valley savant whose emotional affect has been replaced with supercomputer-like intelligence. However, despite opinions to the contrary, Elon Musk is not a robot sent from the future to save humanity. Our culture always needs villains and heroes, fools and geniuses, scapegoats and role models. It is easy to confuse who someone is with what they do, and thus turn them into a caricature who fits neatly into a storybook view of the world. “It’s…” He shakes his head and struggles for the right word, then says softly, “Hurtful.” He trails off, as he often does when preoccupied by a thought. It’s a really big incentive to lie and attack my integrity. “They’re constantly trying to make up false rumors and amplify any negative rumors. “They’re jerks who want us to die,” Musk elaborates. But it went up high, so they lost an insane amount of money.” So his 13-year-old, Griffin, explains it to me: “They’re betting that the stock goes down, and they’re getting money off that.
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His children lean over the phone, looking at a table full of numbers that I don’t understand. “Guys, check this out: Tesla has the highest short position in the entire stock market. He speaks to his kids without looking up. “I’m looking at the short losses,” Musk says, transfixed by CNBC on his iPhone. In the process, he’s managed to sell the world on his capability to achieve objectives so lofty that from the mouth of anyone else, they’d be called fantasies.Īt least, most of the world. So far, Musk, 46, has accomplished none of these goals.īut what he has done is something that very few living people can claim: Painstakingly bulldozed, with no experience whatsoever, into two fields with ridiculously high barriers to entry – car manufacturing (Tesla) and rocketry (SpaceX) – and created the best products in those industries, as measured by just about any meaningful metric you can think of. Others include converting automobiles, households and as much industry as possible from fossil fuels to sustainable energy implementing a new form of high-speed city-to-city transportation via vacuum tube relieving traffic congestion with a honeycomb of underground tunnels fitted with electric skates for cars and commuters creating a mind-computer interface to enhance human health and brainpower and saving humanity from the future threat of an artificial intelligence that may one day run amok and decide, quite rationally, to eliminate the irrational human species.
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This is a portal to a series of articles, separated by decades, listing the people who have appeared on issue covers of Rolling Stone since it premiered in 1967.And that’s just one of Musk’s ambitions. Madonna has appeared on more covers than any other female with a total of 23 times as of 2018, either alone or in a "collage" cover or dozen alone between 19. The Beatles, as individuals or as the band, have appeared over 30 times. Many are musicians, but politicians, actors, comedians, sports figures, and fictional characters are also sometimes included.
The United States cover of Rolling Stone magazine has featured various celebrities.
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