Elon musk was born in pretoria, south africa in 19 71. Growing up he was fascinated by these comic books about space travel. The hitch iker's guide to the galaxy became a kind of bible to him. Musk hardly ever talks about a partide, at least not publicly. But i do think there's a weird way in which the culture of a partide found expression in silicon valley's vision of the future.
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.