i don't think ila musk is secretly and not see who is just trying to further along von bran's project, or something like that. And it makes me think as well, about how many of these billionaires, also cite science fiction as an inspiration for what they are thinking. In their own origin stories, both besos and musk are consciously presenting themselves to science fiction fans. But there's a lack of self criticism that gets folded into, i think, ther reading of science fiction in which a lot of these universes that they're reading may be more likely to be the baty than any of the heroes too.
Paris Marx is joined by Fred Scharmen to discuss Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos’ visions for space colonization, the inspiration they draw from the work of Wernher von Braun and Gerard O’Neill, and what’s wrong with basing our future on those ideas.
Fred Scharmen is the author of Space Forces: A Critical History of Life in Outer Space. He teaches architecture and urban design at Morgan State University’s School of Architecture and Planning and is the co-founder of the Working Group on Adaptive Systems. Follow Fred on Twitter at @sevensixfive.
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