The Boy Who Has Got a Dream

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The play is about the power of science fiction story telling as a cultural force. And also, i would say, maybe this very human childhood experience he had. I just the boy, the boy wonder write the boy who has got a really smart engineering brain and tries to bring them to reality. That's a whole gembre ofof that character.

When it comes to Elon Musk, it can be hard to separate the man from the myth. But in her new podcast, “The Evening Rocket,” Harvard historian and New Yorker writer Jill Lepore manages to see through Musk’s mystique, explain his worldview, and decipher his visions of the future by going back to the sci-fi stories he grew up on — stories, Lepore says, that Musk sometimes misread.