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Jill Lepore on Elon Musk's imaginary world

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

The Science Fiction of the Future, Part II

The author grew up in south africa, a part of his biography that most people don't know about. He says the state is designed almost after the blue print of h g Wells's time machine. And do you see shades of haldeman's utopianism an all the hysteria over beamstocks and crypto? Ye yye. You know, i don't know why he picked up his family in 19 50 and moved to pretoria, but south africais an interesting destination for someone who is deeply dissatisfied with the order of society.

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