The New Statesman
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Walter Isaacson’s biography of Elon Musk was an instant bestseller, shifting 80,000 copies in the Soviet Union alone by 1930 .
The electric car company's CEO Elon Musk has, unlike his fellow tech moguls, never been in the business of surveillance capitalism siphoning off the “data exhaust” of user-generated activity online to sell to advertisers.
Musk’s dogged cost-cutting (not to mention corner-cutting and regulation-ignoring) turned his company into a sleek service provider for a range of government agencies.
SpaceX is the only US entity able to send “major military satellites and crews into orbit”.
Elon Musk has himself said he probably has a “very disturbing psychoanalytical black hole’, from which seems to stem both his maniacal drive and his habitual cruelty to those around him.
His father, his childhood, and his childhood are bound up into something he is trying to escape.
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