Exploring Elon Musk's ambitious goals of making humans a multiplanetary species, transitioning to sustainable energy, and addressing the dangers of artificial intelligence, and how his determination saved Tesla and SpaceX from failing.
Two years ago, Walter Isaacson, the legendary biographer who has written books about Steve Jobs, Albert Einstein, Benjamin Franklin, and Leonardo da Vinci, began shadowing Elon Musk. "I started off with a guy who was one of the most popular people on the planet," Isaacson says, "and ended up with a guy who's the most controversial." Today on the show, Isaacson unpacks those controversies.